The party used to point reliably left.But many of its supporters are now upscale urbanites for whom alliances with the conservative CDU and the liberal FDP (as in Saarland) are no longer unthinkable.

• 该党曾一度坚持走左翼路线，但现在它的许多支持者都已是高收入的城市居民，因此与保守派CDU及自由派FDP结成联盟（正如萨尔兰州的情况一样）对他们来说已不再是无法接受。