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Janine Wissler and Dietmar Bartsch lead the left as top candidates in the upcoming federal election campaign.

The party executive appointed the co-party leader and the co-leader of the Bundestag parliamentary group to be the top duo on Monday.

The decision was made in favor of the most likely candidates.

Bartsch has been co-head of the left-wing parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2015.

The 63-year-old comes from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and is an experienced party strategist, is considered a pragmatist and has long been campaigning for the left to take over government responsibility if the majorities allow it.

Janine Wissler, 39, has been co-party leader since February and is part of the left wing of the party.

The Hessian is basically also open to her party's participation in government, but strictly rejects any move away from left-wing positions, for example when the German armed forces are no longer deployed abroad and arms exports are stopped.

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Wissler's co-party leader Susanne Hennig-Wellsow said on Monday on the information radio of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg that both politicians had different lives and had different political experiences, “in the Hessian state parliament, in the Bundestag, East, West”.

Bartsch and Wissler thus also represented society with different needs.

"There are two that fit together and bring the left forward."

The left is currently between six and eight percent in the polls.

In the last election in 2017, she had cut off with 9.2 percent.