Christian Leye
Christian Leye (born 6 April 1981 in Bochum) is a German politician. He earned a Master of Arts from the University of Göttingen. From 2016 he served as the state chairman of the Left (Die Linke) in North Rhine-Westphalia. In the 2021 federal election, he ran in Duisburg II and won a Bundestag seat for North Rhine-Westphalia on the party list, serving from 27 October 2021 to 23 February 2025. Leye helped found the precursor to Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party and, on 23 October 2023, announced he would leave The Left and join Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), which he joined in 2023.
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