Deutscher bundestag gregor gysi biography
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Gregor Gysi
Gregor Florian Gysi (sündinud 16. jaanuaril1948Berliinis) on Saksa jurist ja vasakpoolne poliitik.
1970. aastal lõpetas Gregor Gysi Berliini Humboldti Ülikooli juristina. 1967. aastal astus ta Saksamaa Sotsialistlikku Ühtsusparteisse. Alates 1971. aastast tegutses ta Saksa DV-s advokaadina, doktorikraadi kaitses 1976. aastal. Advokaadina kaitses ta ka mitmeid režiimikriitikuid ja inimõiguste aktiviste (Rudolf Bahro, Robert Havemann, Ulrike Poppe, Bärbel Bohley). 1988–1989 oli ta Ida-Berliini Juristide Kolleegiumi esimees ja Saksa DV Juristide Kolleegiumi nõukogu esimees.[1]
9. detsembrist1989 kuni 4. veebruarini1990 oli Gregor Gysi Saksamaa Sotsialistliku Ühtsuspartei/Demokraatliku Sotsialismi Partei (SED-PDS) esimees.[2] 4. veebruarist 1990 kuni 30. jaanuarini1993 oli ta Demokraatliku Sotsialismi Partei esimees.[3] 1990. aasta märtsist kuni oktoobrini oli Gregor Gysi Saksa DV Rahvakoja (parlamendi) liige.[4]
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Gysi elected president of europeisk Left
On the second day of its three-day congress in Berlin, the Party of the europeisk Left (EL) has elected 68-year-old Gregor Gysi, the former leader of Germany's Left Party ("Die Linke") as its new president. He succeeds French communist Pierre Laurent. Gysi ran unopposed.
Together with his vice-presidents, he was elected with 67.6 percent of the vote.
"Resistance to austerity policies is growing," Gysi said in his acceptance speech on Saturday. "The left has to support this resistance. After 1945, after the worst crimes against humanity in history, Germany received the Marshall strategi. And what are we doing with Southern Europe? We're destroying it in the interests of sparande money. Where is the Marshall strategi for Southern Europe?"
The EL is a party and association of democratic-socialist and communist parties from 27 countries both inside and outside the EU. It includes not just the Left Party in Germany, but also the Coalition of th
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Gysi bids farewell to the Bundestag
"Wait, wait - you're not rid of me yet." Gregor Gysi signed off as head of the socialist Left party's parliamentary faction on Friday with a typical cocktail of rhetorical cheek and demands for social justice. But his final speech to the Bundestag - at least the last one he will deliver with the authority of leading Germany's opposition - also contained some uncharacteristically sentimental gestures of reconciliation for his political enemies.
For many years of Gysi's long parliamentary career - except for a five-year break to be Berlin's economy minister, he has been a member of parliament since 1990 - members of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) accused Gysi of having been an informant for the Stasi. Gysi successfully fought all the accusations in court, but it was a matter once taken up by the parliament's "immunity committee," which examines whether potential members have a criminal record.
It turned out that Gysi had