Initially hailed as the man who would lead Romania into a new democratic era, Iliescu's legacy soon became more complicated.

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Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) membership has voted by a clear majority in favor of a coalition government with the conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU).

October 1, 2009 Berlin Few political institutions anywhere have a nobler history than the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, a.k.a. the German Social Democratic Party, a.k.a. the SPD.

The future of Europe’s Social Democrats will be decided less upon who leads them, and more upon whom they can attract to build a new, lasting base. It’s not about whose faces are on the poster.

The center-left Social Democrats ran a steady campaign under his leadership and won 26 percent of the vote, a turnaround for a party that started election season in third.