| German Left Party nominates "Nazi-hunter" as presidential candidate |
| Last Updated(Beijing Time):2012-02-28 00:34 |
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German Left Party on Monday nominated the 73-year-old Beate Klarsfeld as its candidate for the the presidential election due on March 18.
Klarsfeld, a senior French-German journalist and notable Nazi-criminal hunter, will run against Joachim Gauck from Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition, said the Left Party leader Gesine Lotzsch.
The Left Party had decided last week to select its own candidate in the presidential race, as Merkel's CDU declined the party's proposal for a consensus candidate.
Klarsfeld has been well known as a journalist and Nazi-hunter. In 1968, she struck Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger in the face on a CDU party because of its Nazi past and called him a Nazi. Later, she joined hand with her husband Serge Klarsfeld in an effort to extradite Nazi criminals, including Klaus Barbie, former Gestapo chief of Lyon. |
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