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You must be very young and/or naive, if you had lived through the Schröder/Fischer governments (or had informed yourself about them) you'd have known that neither the SPD nor the Greens are in any way left leaning.
To be fair here... They are as left as their third coalition partner allows. And that's entirely the fault of voters, who -even with the CDU underperforming and proposing a literal clown as chancellor- couldn't mananage to vote in a not-right majority. So why complain about not enough left policies now?
I won't vote left and then I complain about missing left policies and decide to vote even more right isn't a sane thought pattern but just a symptom of brain damage.
Then, in order to know how left leaning SPD and Greens are when no coalition partner is holding them back, you only need to look at the governments of Schröder/Fischer, as I already pointed out here.
It's obvious bullshit to use a quarter of a century old reference... Who's actually left from back then nearly a generation later?
https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/192255/umfrage/durchschnittsalter-in-den-parteien/
Of course an AVERAGE age of 60 in the SPD shows how less is left from 25 years ago.
No, most of the people in leading positions back then having quit the party, quit politics or having stepped down and only working in the backrows ~15 years ago (and some being dead) is what shows it...