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Goodbye PDS, Hello "Left Party"
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| Last Edited | 411 Name Removed Jul 19, 2005 02:22am |
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| Media | TV News - Deutsch Welle |
| News Date | Sunday, July 17, 2005 08:20:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | After much back and forth, Germany's reform communist PDS party on Sunday voted in favor of joining a new leftist alliance, and agreed to change their name, as expected, to The Left Party.
Delegates at an extraordinary Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) congress in Berlin on Sunday supported the measure to join a splinter far-left party by 74.6 percent, easily reaching the two-thirds majority requirement.
With the move, the PDS will now be known, together with the WASG party headed by former Social Democrat chairman Oskar Lafontaine, as "Die Linkspartei," or "The Left Party." The letters "PDS" may still be tacked on at the end, an option that particularly the party's eastern German branches intend to make use of. |
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