After two weeks of speculation it was announced on June NUMBER@1 that he would run as the lead candidate for the Left Party -LRB- Die Linkspartei -RRB- , a coalition of the ORGANIZATION@1 -LRB- ORGANIZATION@2 -RRB- , which is based in western LOCATION@1 , and the ORGANIZATION@3 .

On June NUMBER@1 , he said he would run as the lead candidate for the The ORGANIZATION@3 .
