Sabine Jünger is a German

Germany

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 politician for The Left Party.PDS.

Jünger studied theology

Theology

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 and changed to legal science

Legal science

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 in Berlin

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 in 1992. She started political work in 1991, while still in school. In 1992, Jünger became a member of The Left Party.PDS. In 1994, she was elected to the parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In the federal elections in 1998

German federal election, 1998

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 she was elected to the Bundestag

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, where she was a member until 2002.

Jünger is openly

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 lesbian

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 and has one child. She is an atheist

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