German voters’ view of personal wealth causes problems for the left

Analysis: left-of-centre parties struggle to cut through as survey shows everyone thinks they are middle class'

It is a country with levels of wealth inequality more similar to the United States than France, and one where the richest 10% of the population already owned two thirds of the national wealth before the pandemic further widened the gap.

Yet the inequality of German society and how to fix it is likely to play a minor role in the race to September elections this year, with those parties expected to offer solutions - the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the leftwing Die Linke - struggling in the polls.