The contest between Roland Koch, Christian Democratic (CDU) governor of the German state of Hesse, and Social Democratic (SPD) challenger Andrea Ypsilanti, was the most closely watched regional ...

Is Ypsilanti already talking to the Left party? Photo: DPA Andrea Ypsilanti, the head of the Social Democrats (SPD) in the German state of Hesse, is reportedly preparing another attempt to forge a ...

The recent Left Party state convention in Hesse has overwhelmingly supported the election of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) regional chair Andrea Ypsilanti as state premier to lead a minority ...

Andrea Ypsilanti, the SPD candidate for Hesse's top post, broke a pre-election pledge not to make any kind of political deal with the Left party, which is made up of former communists and far-left ...

Germany's Social Democratic Party suffered another blow Monday after its leader in Hesse, Andrea Ypsilanti, found that she did not have enough support from within her own ranks to get elected as ...