The Landtag of Saxony,also known in English as the Saxon State Parliament,is the legislature of the Free State of Saxony,one of Germany's sixteen states. It is responsible for legislation,control of the government,and electing some state officials. The Landtag has existed in various forms since 1831,but the current body was established during German reunification in 1990. The Landtag is directly elected and has a term of five years.
Katja Kipping is a German politician of The Left party. She was a member of the Bundestag representing Saxony from 2005 to 2021,a federal co-leader of The Left from 2012 to 2021 alongside Bernd Riexinger,and the Senator for Integration,Labour and Social Affairs in the Berlin state government from December 2021 to April 2023.
Bodo Ramelow is a German politician who has served since 4 March 2020 as Minister-President of Thuringia,an office he previously held from 2014 to 5 February 2020. He is the first head of a German state government to serve non-consecutive terms in office since Eberhard Diepgen,who served twice as Governing Mayor of Berlin. A member of The Left,he previously chaired the party's group in the Landtag of Thuringia. On 8 October 2021,he was elected to a one-year term as President of the Bundesrat. His term lasted from 1 November 2021 until 31 October 2022.
The Left,commonly referred to as the Left Party,is a democratic socialist political party in Germany. The party was founded in 2007 as the result of the merger of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and Labour and Social Justice –The Electoral Alternative. Through the PDS,the party is the direct descendant of the Marxist–Leninist ruling party of the former East Germany,the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. Since 2022,The Left's co-chairpersons have been Janine Wissler and Martin Schirdewan. The party holds 39 seats out of 736 in the Bundestag,the federal legislature of Germany,having won 4.9% of votes cast in the 2021 German federal election. Its parliamentary group is the smallest of six in the Bundestag,and is headed by parliamentary co-leaders Amira Mohamed Ali and Dietmar Bartsch.
Peer Stefan Wenzel is a German agricultural economist and politician for the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since the 2021 elections,representing the Cuxhaven –Stade II district.
Henning Otte is a German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).
Cornelia Ernst is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany. She is a member of The Left Party,part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left.
Hans-Henning Adler is a German politician and member of The Left Party. From 2008 until 2013,he was a member of the Parliament of Lower Saxony,and since 2010 he has been a party leader of the Left.
Elke Altmann is a German politician and member of the Left Party of Germany. From October 1999 until September 2009,she was a member of the Landtag of Saxony.
Jan Löffler is a German politician (CDU). Since 2009 he is a member of the Saxon Landtag. Currently he is the vice chairman and treasurer of the CDU-faction in the Saxon Landtag.
Alexander Gerd Krauß is a German politician who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 2017 to 2021. From 2004 until 2017 he was a member of the Landtag of the Free State of Saxony.
Dagmar Enkelmann is a German politician of Die Linke party.
Caren Nicole Lay is a German politician. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2009 and has been deputy chairperson of the Die Linke parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2017. From 2012 to 2018,she was one of the deputy chairpersons of her party. In November 2019,Lay unsuccessfully applied to succeed Sahra Wagenknecht as co-chairperson of the Die Linke parliamentary group in the Bundestag. She was defeated by Amira Mohamed Ali in a competitive vote.
Stefan Liebich is a German politician,who served as a member of the Bundestag for the Democratic Socialist party The Left between 2009 and 2021.
AndréHahn is a German politician. Born in Berlin-Friedrichshain,he represents The Left. AndréHahn has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saxony since 2013.
Stefan Gebhardt is a German politician of The Left. Since 2019,he has been the leader of the party's Saxony-Anhalt branch. He has been a member of the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt since 1998,and a member of the Mansfeld-Südharz district council since 2007.
Steffen Bockhahn is a German politician. He is the Senator for Social Affairs,Youth,Health and Schools of the Hanseatic City of Rostock. From 24 October 2009 to 5 November 2012 he was the state chairman of the Left Party in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania,and from 2009 to 2013 he was a member of the 17th German Bundestag,where he was elected as a direct candidate.
Adis Ahmetovic is a German politician of Bosnian descent. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and a Member of the Bundestag.
The AfD Saxony-Anhalt is the state association of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. The state association is led by the member of parliament Martin Reichardt as state chairman. With AndréPoggenburg as the top candidate,the AfD Sachsen-Anhalt ran for the first time in a state election in 2016 and subsequently represented the second largest parliamentary group in the seventh state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt.
Freie Sachsen is a secessionist and autonomist movement within the German state of Saxony,which seeks to restore the former Saxon Royal Family and "Saexit if Necessary" It views itself as a Right wing monarchist group.
