The Left Party parliamentary group in the Bundestag (short Linksfraktion, own spelling Fraktion DIE LINKE.
Before the merger of Labour and Social Justice (WASG) and the Party of Democratic Socialism(PDS) to form Die Linke on 16 June 2007, the Left parliamentary group was the joint parliamentary group of independent members of the German Bundestag and members of the two source parties in the German Bundestag.
[5] In October 2013, the daily newspaper Die Welt alleged that the parliamentary group's manager, Ruth Kampa, had worked for the Ministry for State Security for over 20 years as an unofficial employee.
Although Die Linke failed to clear the five percent hurdle in the 2021 German federal election and only entered the Bundestag with 39 MPs thanks to the basic mandate clause [de], it formed its own fraktion and not a gruppe.
The parliamentary group executive committee consisted of the following people until 2023:[9] Work and Social Affairs Budget, Finance, Economy, Infrastructure, Environment Education, Digitalization, Democracy, Interior The female MPs formed the women's plenum.
[10] Before the election, the nomination under the slogan "Not your seriousness" had been criticized by climate activists and several Left Party politicians.
[17] In 2013, according to Der Spiegel, 25 of the 57 members of the Bundestag from the Left Party were under surveillance by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
[18] In March 2014, the Federal Minister of the Interior, Thomas de Maizière, informed the parliamentary group leader Gregor Gysi that Left Party MPs would no longer be monitored by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and that members of the Bundestag would "in future generally be exempt from surveillance by the domestic secret service".