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Gregor Gysi
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Gregor Gysi

Gregor Gysi is a trained attorney and veteran politician of Germany's socialist Left Party.

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A person leafs through a stack of ballot papers on a table

Germany's political landscape is more fractured than ever

The successes of the AfD and BSW in the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia has changed the German party system.
PoliticsSeptember 13, 2024
Sahra Wagenknecht

Germany: New BSW party in kingmaker position in east

The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance wants to help govern Saxony and Thuringia, but some key demands have been rejected.
PoliticsSeptember 3, 2024
A BSW poster featuring Sarah Wagenknecht and proclaiming her party gives security a home

'A one-woman show,' the Sahra Wagenknecht phenomenon

She may be controversial, but her new party’s success in eastern Germany could change the country’s political landscape.
PoliticsSeptember 1, 2024
Martin Schirdewan and Janine Wissler

Germany's Left Party on the brink of oblivion

The most important socialist voice in the country's political landscape is struggling for survival.
PoliticsAugust 20, 2024
Martin Schirdewan and Janine Wissler

Left Party leaders Wissler and Schirdewan to step down

Several batterings in the polls has seen party confidence in the pair deteriorate.
PoliticsAugust 18, 2024
Sahra Wagenknecht and her BSW allies jubilant on Sunday evening

Germany's new populists BSW challenge the far-right AfD

The BSW party took over 6% of the German vote in the EU election. Analysts say the far-right AfD should be most worried.
PoliticsJune 10, 2024
Left to right: Fabio de Masi, Amira Mohamed Ali, Sahra Wagenknecht, Shervin Haghsheno and Thomas Geisel at the presentation of the new party

New populist party shakes up German political establishment

Sahra Wagenknecht's new party is restrictive on immigration, pro-Russia and champions left-wing social policies.
PoliticsJanuary 8, 2024
Activist Carola Rackete (left) and party co-chair Martin Schirdewan holding flowers, smiling

Germany's socialist Left Party fights for survival

The post-communist Left Party is trying to reinvent itself as a viable political force in today's Germany.
PoliticsNovember 20, 2023
Porträt Sahra Wagenknecht

Germany: Left Party to disband parliamentary faction

The unusual move follows the recent resignation of Sahra Wagenknecht to form her own new party.
PoliticsNovember 14, 2023
Ruth Fuchs competes in the Olympic javelin competition at the 1972 Munich games

Ruth Fuchs, GDR javelin ace turned German politician, dies

The former East German athlete later served in the East German and reunified German parliaments.
SocietySeptember 20, 2023
Sahra Wagenknecht, her dark hair up and wearing pendant earrings, against a red background

Is Germany's Left Party on the brink of collapse?

The socialist Left Party is in trouble: one of its most prominent figures wants to start her own political movement.
PoliticsAugust 31, 202301:41 min
German lawmaker Gökay Akbulut speaks before the Bundestag

Turkey is 'state of injustice,' says German MP after arrest

Left party lawmaker Gökay Akbulut told DW that Turkey is being governed under "arbitrary rule."
Human RightsAugust 16, 2023
Björn Höcke having powder applied to his upper lip in preparation of a TV interview

AfD: German voters shift toward far right

The AfD continues to gain ground in opinion polls as support for ending the taboo on cooperating with it is growing.
PoliticsAugust 4, 2023
Sauerbraten — marinaded meat with dumplings on a plate

Germany: More people unable to afford good meals

More and more people in Germany cannot afford to eat meat, fish or the equivalent on a daily basis, figures show.
SocietyJuly 31, 2023
Sign outside the ministry of defense in Berlin

Eastern Germans underrepresented in government ministries

Despite one fifth of Germans hailing from the east of the country, only two of 35 state secretaries come from there.
PoliticsJune 12, 2023
Sahra Wagenknecht at protest against sending weapons to Ukraine in Berlin

Germany's Left calls on controversial lawmaker to quit party

The party is calling on Sahra Wagenknecht to give up her seat after saying she wants to found a new party.
PoliticsJune 10, 2023
Boris Palmer holding his mouth

The rogues' gallery of German politics

Here's the DW gallery of political rogues that have caused their party leaders the biggest headaches.
PoliticsMay 2, 20235 images
Alice Schwarzer, women's rights activist, and Sahra Wagenknecht (Die Linke), stand on stage at the demonstration.

Germany: Left Party, Wagenknecht clash after 'peace' rally

The Left Party and Sahra Wagenknecht continued trading blows after her contentious weekend "peace" rally in Berlin.
PoliticsFebruary 27, 2023
Olaf Scholz with fellow SPD lawmaker Wiebke Papenbrock

German chancellor heckled amid promises on cost of living

The chancellor promised new measures to help with the cost-of-living crisis, but was shouted down by protesters.
PoliticsAugust 18, 2022
A heater in the color of the German flag, before wallpaper with euro symbols

Germans' support for Russia sanctions steady — can it last?

Russia is supplying less gas and energy prices are rising. Can solidarity with Ukraine endure as life gets tougher?
PoliticsJuly 8, 2022
A forensics officer combs the scene

German police seek clues after blast hits Left Party office

Authorities in Oberhausen have been combing the scene of an explosion at regional offices of the socialist Left Party.
PoliticsJuly 5, 2022
Left Party flags and Germany national flag

Why Germany's socialists are failing

Socialist parties have been celebrating election victories in many countries. In Germany they are struggling to survive.
PoliticsJuly 3, 2022
Left party

Things to know about the Left Party

The socialist Left Party is the least likely to be part of a governing coalition. What are the others so afraid of?
PoliticsJune 30, 2022
AfD election poster torn up and in the trash at a bus stop

German populism takes a blow

Parties on the far side of the political spectrum have been struggling in the wake of the Ukraine war.
PoliticsMay 10, 2022
Susanne Hennig-Wellsow

Germany's Left Party leader quits

After a little over a year as chairwoman, Susanne Hennig-Wellsow is stepping down, citing a need for party renewal.
PoliticsApril 20, 2022
Police at the scene of the crime in Leipzig

Germany: Sheep heads thrown at lawmaker's office

It is believed to be an act of retribution after a small left-wing group vandalized a mosque in Leipzig on Monday.
PoliticsDecember 17, 2021
Reichstag building in the parties' colors

Germany's election results: Facts and figures

Where do Germany's political parties have their strongholds?
PoliticsSeptember 28, 2021
Olaf Scholz

Germany votes: Big gains for center-left — as it happened

Merkel's conservatives have suffered their worst postwar result, with the center-left SPD leading.
PoliticsSeptember 27, 2021
Olaf Scholz waves to his supporters in Berlin

SPD hold slim lead, CDU slumps to worst showing in decades

The center-left SPD are ahead of the conservative CDU/CSU bloc by almost two points, preliminary election results show.
PoliticsSeptember 27, 2021
Manuela Kasper-Claridge

Move over grand coalition — Germany wants change

Manuela Kasper-Claridge
The dominance of Germany's big parties is over. It's about time, argues DW's Editor-in-Chief Manuela Kasper-Claridge.
PoliticsSeptember 26, 2021
Game playing pieces in various colors symbolizing the German Bundestag members

German election 2021: Governing coalition options

DW takes a look at Germany's colorful shorthand for how various coalitions governments could shape up.
PoliticsSeptember 25, 20217 images
A woman looking at election posters

What are the German party programs?

Here is where the six main parties stand on the most important topics such as climate, taxes and social security.
PoliticsSeptember 25, 2021
torches illuminated the Left Party and the SPD's red logos and the Greens' green logo

Could Germany soon have a left-wing government?

Chancellor Merkel's CDU is flagging in the polls — and conjuring up the threat of a far-left takeover. Rightly so?
PoliticsSeptember 24, 2021
Coal power plant Neurath

German parties pledge to confront climate change — or not

The fight against climate change is one of the German voters' main topics of concern at election time.
PoliticsSeptember 23, 2021
Armin Laschet throwing his hands in the air

Opinion polls upend CDU, SPD party campaigns

Increasingly desperate conservatives are warning of a socialist takeover. But the center-left SPD is playing it safe.
PoliticsSeptember 6, 2021
Current chancellor Angela Merkel of the CDU follows Olaf Scholz of the SPD

Merkel questions SPD's Scholz on Left party

Angela Merkel has taken the Social Democrat candidate to succeed her to task over his possible coalition options.
PoliticsSeptember 1, 2021
DW Interview BTW Janine Wissler Die Linke mit Chimbelu und Romaniec

Interview with Janine Wissler from the Left Party

Germany votes: DW interview with the Left’s lead candidate, Janine Wissler.
PoliticsAugust 22, 202125:49 min
Left Party co-chair Janine Wissler poses for a picture at DW's studio in Berlin

Exclusive: German Left Party urges Afghan aid to continue

In an interview with DW, the Left's top candidate Janine Wissler sharply criticized Berlin's actions in Afghanistan.
PoliticsAugust 21, 2021
Left Party 2021 campaign posters in Berlin

The Left Party and its anti-military unique selling point

The Left Party wants to end all Bundeswehr missions abroad, stop all weapons exports and scrap the NATO alliance.
PoliticsAugust 16, 2021
Four heads. upper: Sahra Wagenknecht (l),Thilo Sarazzin, lower: Boris Palmer (l), Hans-Georg Maaßen,

Germany's unruliest political rogues

All German political parties have a politician who annoys party leaders by making outrageous statements.
PoliticsJuly 6, 2021
Angela Merkel waving

Germans want political continuity

In less than one hundred days, Germans will vote for a new parliament.
PoliticsJuly 1, 2021
Stefan Lofven, Swedish Prime Minister

Swedish prime minister loses no confidence vote

Social Democrat party leader Stefan Lofven now has the choice of either stepping down or calling a snap election.
PoliticsJune 21, 2021
Among its manifesto commitments, the party advocates an end to all arms exports

Left party plans to scrap NATO, end troop deployments

The socialist Left party has adopted its policy platform for Germany's September general election.
PoliticsJune 20, 2021
A jubilant Reiner Haseloff and his wife Gabriele

Germany's CDU gets boost with surprise victory

Angela Merkel's party got a boost, while the Green party had its hopes dashed.
PoliticsJune 6, 2021
Deutschland Bundestag

A guide to Germany's possible coalitions

Coalition negotiations are the vital beginning of every legislative period. So what options are there?
PoliticsMay 17, 2021
A pair of hands slides a ballot into a box sealed with an orange lock

Untangling the German election process

DW breaks down the ins-and-outs of the Bundestag election as Germany heads to the polls on September 26.
PoliticsApril 19, 2021
DW NL Berlin Briefing Keyvisual

A look at Germany's political parties

Here's a who's who of German political parties.
PoliticsMarch 1, 2021
Susanne Hennig-Wellsow (left) and Janine Wissler

Germany's Left party attempts a fresh start

A few months before Germany's national election, the socialists hope a new leadership duo will give them fresh momentum.
PoliticsFebruary 27, 2021
New Year's fireworks at the Brandenburg Gate in 2019

Germany 2021: Fighting COVID and replacing Angela Merkel

The pandemic fight and political battles are expected to be the defining features of 2021 in Germany.
PoliticsJanuary 1, 2021
Bodo Ramelow (left) und Björn Höcke (right)

Top politicians in Thuringia both lose their immunity

The AfD's Björn Höcke faces defamation charges, while a middle finger gesture plagues the Left party's Bodo Ramelow.
PoliticsDecember 4, 2020