But this cannot be the whole explanation, because a similar radicalization is occurring within German’s left, where the alliance of the post-communist PDS – still powerful in the Länder of what was East Germany – and SPD dissidents led by Oskar Lafontaine promotes equally radical proposals. With the evident failure of both leftist and rightist governments to stem the rising wave of unemployment, a growing part of the French and German electorates no longer seems to believe in traditional solutions.
但这并非全部解释，因为类似的激变也在德国左翼政党发生。在那里，后共产的民主社会主义党在原东德州内依然强大。该党和由奥斯卡尔·拉方戴内领导的社会民主党异议人士结盟，鼓吹同样激进的提议。由于左右两翼政府对失业大潮均无计可施，越来越多的法德两国选民似乎不再相信传统的解决方案。