Once she was the star of the German left, now the party has finally broken with Sahra Wagenknecht. “The future of the left is a future without Sahra Wagenknecht,” said a decision by the party board on Saturday. He also accused the 53-year-old of “attempted blackmail”. The background to this is the political icon’s plans to create his own party.
The party board asked the wife of former German finance minister Oskar Lafontaine to relinquish her mandate. According to saechsische.de, this also applies to their supporters. The resolution states: “It is a matter of political decency and fairness towards the members of our party if those participating in a rival party’s project are consistent and relinquish their mandate.”
Wagenknecht: ‘I don’t see any prospects for the left’
The member of the Bundestag announced in March that she no longer wanted to run as a national candidate for the left. She repeatedly indicated that she saw no prospects for the left. In recent weeks there have also been isolated calls within the party to throw Wagenknecht out.
Wagenknecht wants to decide on the establishment of the party at the end of this year
She herself brought up the possibility of establishing her own party. “By the end of the year it should be clear how things will continue,” Wagenknecht told news portal “ZDFheute.de” in mid-March. The decision on whether or not to form a party will be made “within the next nine months”.
Wagenknecht has been a member of the German Bundestag for the Left Party since 2009 and was co-chairman of the parliamentary group for several years. In 2021, she was the top candidate for the left in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and won another seat in the state parliament.
Nationally left by 5 percent
Recently, Wagenknecht was heavily criticized within and outside the Left Party for the “Manifesto for Peace” written with the publicist Alice Schwarzer. The left-wing leaders criticized the accompanying call for a rally to mark the anniversary of the war in Ukraine, as lacking sufficient distance from Russia and a demarcation of right-wing forces. The party is on the back burner. According to a recent survey, the left is only 5 percent nationwide.
It was not until mid-April that German left-wing politicians Dietmar Bartsch and Gregor Gysi warned their party against a split. “End the permanent public disputation, mutual denunciation, ego tripping,” reads a joint appeal. “The formation of a second left party is completely unnecessary.”
Source: Krone
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