Left party leader apologizes for calling German conservatives

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2026-06-22

Berlin (dpa) - The new leader of Germany's The Left party, Luigi Pantisano, has apologized for his remarks likening the policies of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to fascism, telling dpa his statement had been "shortened and wrong in that form." "My statement that there is currently no difference between the policies of the CDU and the AfD was shortened and wrong in that form," Pantisano told dpa on Monday, referring to the anti-immigrant A......

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