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The theme of the day: Left elects new group leaders
The Left has re-elected its leadership. On the side of Dietmar Bartsch Amira Mohamed Ali will lead the parliamentary group in the future. In the second round of voting, the party part won by 36 to 29 votes against the pragmatist Caren Lay. Bartsch received 44 votes - he had no opponent. So far, Mohamed Ali was previously in the group's spokeswoman on consumer protection. She is less prominent than her competitor Lay, who was already the federal managing director, vice-party secretary and most recently deputy group leader.
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Amira Mohamed Ali
The party is facing a break with the change of the top of the group, because one of its most well-known members resigns: Sahra Wagenknecht has shaped decisively the debates of the comrades for years. First as deputy party chairman, then as group vice, since 2015 as head of the parliamentary group. The power struggle with the party leadership was exhausting for the party and for Wagenknecht himself. She also cited him as the reason for their burnout. In the spring she declared that she would not run for her job again.
The new co-boss will now have to pacify the fractious party, which has been wiped out by the dispute between Wagenknecht and party leader Katja Kipping. So she had announced her candidacy. In an e-mail she wrote that the group and the party were "in a challenging situation". There are always "high losses of friction in the faction, which are responsible for weakening the perceptibility of our work".
The number of the day: 35
After months of strife, the grand coalition has made a compromise on the basic pension. It provides that only pensioners who have accumulated at least 35 years of contributions can benefit from the full support. But who gets how much and why? Here the whole thing once calculated by different examples.
News: What you need to know today
- German Thomas Cook eliminates all travel for 2020: The insolvent tour operator has canceled all already booked trips for the coming year - even if they have already been paid.
- Israel kills leaders of Islamic Jihad: On his last day as Secretary of Defense, Benjamin Netanyahu killed a leader of Islamic jihad in Gaza.
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Benjamin Netanyahu
- ECJ imposes labeling requirements for products of Israeli settlers: The European Court of Justice has issued a politically explosive verdict. EU countries must identify food from areas occupied by Israel.
- Seven arrests after attacks at the Cologne Carnival: At the beginning of the carnival season in Cologne, there were several attacks on carnival, including a particularly drastic attack with a cable tie.
- Bayern pays justice victim Gustl Mollath 600,000 euros: For years he was wrongly housed in a psychiatric ward, now the 63-year-old 600,000 euros were awarded damages.
Opinion: The most discussed comments
GroKo now - and forever: Could the government not stay in office forever? She has just given the older so beautiful again, with the basic pension without income test. Harald Schmidt says: Thank you! Click here for the video.
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Harald Schmidt
Sure, it's all just fun: Recently, columnist Margarete Stokowski received a letter to the editor on abortions: feminists would make these "abandonment of desire for lifestyle improvement". Of course, the reader is quite right, Stokowski writes: Abortions are a fun trend among feminists.
Stories: The most read texts at SPIEGEL +
"The appearance of Greta Thunberg had something fanatical": The philosopher Alexander Grau analyzed in the interview, the rhetoric in politics: Instead of facts in the climate debate increasingly argued with feelings, dismay and kitsch.
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Greta Thunberg
"Search cocaine near Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz danke": Drugs are ordered by messenger in Berlin and delivered by the courier. Insights into a parallel world.
My evening: the recommendations for your end of workday
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Sharon Stone and Robert De Niro in "Casino", 1995
What you could do: Martin Scorsese has once again made a gangster movie: "The Irishman" runs from 14.11. in the cinemas. In the interview, the star director reveals how he tells the genre today - and why he rejuvenated Robert De Niro with computer technology. So before you go to the cinemas on Thursday, check out the last collaboration between them: "Casino" from 1995 (for example on Netflix). At that time, De Niro was really young.
I wish you a nice finishing time.
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Milena Hassenkamp from the Daily Team
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