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Gregor Gysi

Leader of the former German communist party, Gregor Gysi was born in Berlin in 1948. During the fall of the Wall (1989) he participated in the transformation of Communist Party SED (in power in the RDA) and PDS, the party he’d preside and would elect him for the Bundestag. Along with Oskar Lafontaine, he formed the “new Left party” which gathered the neocommunists of the East and the disappointed of the SPD in the West.

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“The country is changing”
by Gregor Gysi
3 October 2005
We’re the real winners in the elections because we got 4% more than last time. The FDP is stronger not only because the CDU missed votes but because the Federal Republic has changed. For the first time since the beginning of the 50s, the old states feel the need for a force to the left of (...)

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“The country is changing”