Parlamentarische Linke
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Parliamentary Left Parlamentarische Linke | |
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Spokesperson | Matthias Miersch |
Deputy speaker | Sönke Rix |
Treasurer | Bärbel Bas |
Founded | 1972 1980 (Parliamentary Left) | (Leverkusener Kreis)
Ideology | Social democracy[1] |
Political position | Centre-left to left-wing |
National affiliation | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
Seats in the SPD Bundestag group | 95 / 206
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Seats in the Bundestag | 95 / 736
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Ministers | 2 / 17
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Parliamentary State Secretaries | 5 / 37
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Website | |
parlamentarische-linke.de | |
The Parlamentarische Linke (English: Parliamentary Left, abbreviated PL) is a platform within the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)'s Bundestag group.[2] As of 2022, 96 of the group's 206 members belong to the Parliamentary Left,[3] making it the largest of the three extant platforms in the SPD group, alongside the Seeheimer Kreis and Berlin Network. The Parliamentary Left represents social democratic positions within the party.[1]
The platform has three speakers: Matthias Miersch, Sönke Rix and Wiebke Esdar. Elisabeth Kaiser is the platform treasurer.[1] Other prominent members include SPD group chairman Rolf Mützenich and party co-leader Saskia Esken.
Profile
The Parliamentary Left describes itself as "an association of social democratic members of the Bundestag". It represents the
In the area of tax policy, the PL call for a higher
The Parliamentary Left favours closer ties with the Greens and The Left and the development of red-red-green coalitions; the first such coalition in a western state was formed in 2019 under the leadership of Carsten Sieling, former speaker of the Parliamentary Left.[6] The Left became the leading member of a governing coalition for the first time in the eastern state of Thuringia after the 2014 state election, alongside the SPD and Greens.
Organisation
Position | Member(s)[1] | |
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Speakers | Matthias Miersch, Sönke Rix and Wiebke Esdar | |
Treasurer | Elisabeth Kaiser | |
Steering Committee |
History
The Parliamentary Left finds its origins in the "Group of the 16th Floor" (German: Gruppe der 16. Etage, founded by 21 mostly young SPD Bundestag members in October 1969. This group was associated with the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition and pushed for reform within the SPD parliamentary group. The modern platform was officially founded in 1972, then known as the Leverkusener Kreis (Leverkusener Circle). It was refounded as the Parliamentary Left in 1980.[7]
Spokespersons
Portrait | Name | Term start | Term end | |
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Michael Müller (born 1948) |
1998 | 2006 | ||
Ernst Dieter Rossmann (born 1951) |
2006 | 2014 | ||
Carsten Sieling (born 1959) |
2014 | 2015 | ||
Matthias Miersch (born 1968) |
2015 | 2022 | ||
Matthias Miersch, Sönke Rix and Wiebke Esdar | 2022 |
Members
The following is a list of members of the Parliamentary Left as of January 2022.[8]
- Sanae Abdi
- Adis Ahmetovic
- Reem Alabali-Radovan
- Niels Annen
- Ulrike Bahr
- Bärbel Bas
- Jürgen Berghahn
- Bengt Bergt
- Jakob Blankenburg
- Leni Breymaier
- Jürgen Coße
- Bernhard Daldrup
- Hakan Demir
- Karamba Diaby
- Martin Diedenhofen
- Jan Dieren
- Felix Döring
- Axel Echeverria
- Heike Engelhardt
- Wiebke Esdar
- Saskia Esken
- Yasmin Fahimi
- Fabian Funke
- Angelika Glöckner
- Timon Gremmels
- Uli Grötsch
- Bettina Hagedorn
- Rita Hagl-Kehl
- Frauke Heiligenstadt
- Gabriela Heinrich
- Markus Hümpfer
- Oliver Kaczmarek
- Elisabeth Kaiser
- Carlos Kasper
- Anna Kassautzki
- Rainer Keller
- Cansel Kiziltepe
- Helmut Kleebank
- Annika Klose
- Tim Klüssendorf
- Bärbel Kofler
- Martin Kröber
- Kevin Kühnert
- Sarah Lahrkamp
- Karl Lauterbach
- Helge Lindh
- Tanja Machalet
- Erik von Malottki
- Holger Mann
- Kaweh Mansoori
- Zanda Martens
- Franziska Mascheck
- Andreas Mehltretter
- Robin Mesarosch
- Matthias Miersch
- Bettina Müller
- Rolf Mützenich
- Rasha Nasr
- Dietmar Nietan
- Josephine Ortleb
- Mathias Papendieck
- Natalie Pawlik
- Jens Peick
- Christian Petry
- Jan Plobner
- Andreas Rimkus
- Sönke Rix
- Sebastian Roloff
- Jessica Rosenthal
- Michael Roth
- Tina Rudolph
- Bernd Rützel
- Sarah Ryglewski
- Axel Schäfer
- Nina Scheer
- Dagmar Schmidt
- Daniel Schneider
- Johannes Schraps
- Michael Schrodi
- Svenja Schulze
- Frank Schwabe
- Stefan Schwartze
- Svenja Stadler
- Martina Stamm-Fibich
- Ralf Stegner
- Mathias Stein
- Nadja Sthamer
- Ruppert Stüwe
- Claudia Tausend
- Derya Türk-Nachbaur
- Carolin Wagner
- Carmen Wegge
- Melanie Wegling
- Gülistan Yüksel
- Katrin Zschau
References
- ^ a b c d e "About Us". Parlamentarische Linke. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
- ^ "Parlamentarische Linke in der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion". Parlamentarische Linke (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-25.
- ^ "Our Members". Parlamentarische Linke. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
- ^ "Climate and Environmental Protection". Parlamentarische Linke. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
- ^ ""Debt is not bad per se" - The SPD Left is shaking the black zero". n-tv. 2020-09-17.
- Tagesspiegel. 2020-08-20.
- ^ "50 Years of Parliamentary Left". Parlamentarische Linke. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
- ^ Our Members