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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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The rogues' gallery of German politics
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German parties pledge to confront climate change — or not
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Increasingly desperate conservatives are warning of a socialist takeover. But the center-left SPD is playing it safe.
Merkel questions SPD's Scholz on Left party
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Interview with Janine Wissler from the Left Party
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The Left Party and its anti-military unique selling point
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Left party plans to scrap NATO, end troop deployments
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