The Left.

The Left (German: Die Linke), is a democratic socialist political party in Germany. The Left is the most left-wing party of the five represented in the Bundestag. The party was founded on June 16, 2007, as the merger of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) – the successor of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED; the ruling party of East Germany until 1989) – and the Labour and Social Justice Electoral Alternative (WASG). Its co-chairs are... more

The Left (German: Die Linke), is a democratic socialist political party in Germany. The Left is the most left-wing party of the five represented in the Bundestag. The party was founded on June 16, 2007, as the merger of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) – the successor of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED; the ruling party of East Germany until 1989) – and the Labour and Social Justice Electoral Alternative (WASG). Its co-chairs are Lothar Bisky and Oskar Lafontaine. In the Bundestag the party has 76 out of 622 seats after polling 11.9% of the vote in the 2009 federal elections, making it the fourth largest party in Germany. Internationally, The Left is a member of the Party of the European Left and is the largest party in the GUE/NGL grouping in the European Parliament. According to official party figures, the Left Party had 75,968 registered members as of December 2008. The party is for many years been under surveillance by Germany's internal security agency, the... less