Bundestag

The Bundestag (German pronunciation: [ˈbʊndəstaːk], "Federal Diet") is a constitutional and legislative body at the federal level in Germany. For its similar function, it is often described as a lower house of parliament along the lines of the US House of Representatives and the Canadian or the British House of Commons. The German constitution, however, does not define the Bundestag and the Bundesrat as the lower and upper houses of a bicameral legislature.

The Bundestag was established by the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (Constitution) in 1949 as the Lower House of the German Federal Parliament and thus the historical successor to the earlier Reichstag.

Since 1999 it meets in the Reichstag Building in Berlin. Norbert Lammert is the current President of the Bundestag. Members (Abgeordnete) of the Bundestag are usually elected every four years by all adult German citizens in a mixed system of constituency voting and list voting. However, the election day can be earlier if the Federal Chancellor (Bundeskanzler) loses a vote of no confidence and asks the Federal President (Bundespräsident) to dissolve the Bundestag in order to hold new general elections.

Sahra Wagenknecht

Sahra Wagenknecht (born 16 July 1969) is a German politician, graduated economist, and publicist. She is a Member of the Bundestag, author, and a member of the National Committee of the Left Party. Since May 2010 she has been deputy chairperson of the party.

Early life

Wagenknecht was born on 16 July 1969, in the East German city of Jena. Her mother worked for a state-run art distributor. She was cared for primarily by her grandparents until 1976, when she and her mother moved to East Berlin. While in Berlin, she became a member of the Free German Youth (FDJ). She completed her Abitur exams in 1988 and joined the Socialist Unity Party (SED) in early 1989. Her father is Iranian and her mother is German.

From 1990 she studied Philosophy and New German Literature as an undergraduate in Jena and Berlin. Subsequently she dropped out of her courses and enrolled in a philosophy course in Groningen. Her 1996 MA thesis covered the topic of the young Karl Marx's interpretation of Hegel. The dissertation was published as a book in 1997. From 2005 until 2012 she studied economics at the TU Chemnitz, and finished her PhD with a dissertation on "The Limits of Choice. Saving Decisions and Basic Needs in Developed Countries", subsequently published by the Campus Verlag.

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