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Revision as of 15:12, 29 June 2007 by 129.217.211.203 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Template:Infobox German Political Party The Left (Template:Lang-de) is a German political party that came into being as a merger of The Left Party.PDS and Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative on 16 June 2007. Its leaders are Oskar Lafontaine and Lothar Bisky.
According to its own statistics, it is the "third largest political party in Germany" .
The party has, as of June 2007, 71,800 members (60,300 came from PDS and 11,500 from WASG). In the first week after the unification, there were about 2,500 new members.
Internationally, The Left is a member of the European Left alliance of parties and is the largest party in the European United Left/Nordic Green Left group in the European Parliament.
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External links
- Die-Linke.de (in German)
- Programmatic Points (in English - 500 KB PDF)
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| Represented in the Bundestag (733 seats) | |||||||
| Represented in the European Parliament (96 seats for Germany) |
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| Represented in the 16 state parliaments (1,893 seats) |
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| Minor parties (without representation at the state level or above) |
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