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Day: January 6, 2011
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COMMUNISM
Conservatives call for ban on The Left party amid commie flap
Bavaria's conservative premier Horst Seehofer has backed a call to consider banning the socialist Left party in the wake of controversial comments by its chairwoman Gesine Lötzsch about putting Germany on the path to communism.