In a “hot autumn” the left wants to bring as many people as possible onto the streets against the government’s energy policy. But what to do when right-wing groups mobilize with similar goals?
In their announced protests against the federal government’s energy and social policies, the left is trying to distance itself from right-wing demonstrators. There can be no cooperation with the AfD, said party leader Janine Wissler on ARD.
Thuringia’s Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left) called on Deutschlandfunk to distance himself from Monday demonstrations by right-wing groups, as they already exist in Thuringia or Saxony.
Sören Pellmann, the left-wing parliamentary group’s commissioner for Eastern Europe, had called for Monday demonstrations against the gas levy and high energy prices. Since the peaceful revolution in the GDR and the Leipzig Monday demonstrations against the SED, the term has had great symbolic importance. The right is also mobilizing separately from the left against the government’s energy policy – and they too sometimes use the slogan of the Monday demonstration.
On Wednesday evening, very loud demonstrators in Neuruppin, Brandenburg, practically shouted down Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD). “Traitor to the people”, “liar” and “Get lost” were shouted in chants. Two separate demonstrations were registered against Scholz: one from the left with about ten participants, in which Left Party posters could also be seen; and one of supporters of the AfD with many more involved.
Distance from right-wing demonstrators in Neuruppin
The left in Brandenburg expressly distanced itself from the right-wing demonstrators in Neuruppin. “Protest against the government is legitimate, but not in this form,” said state manager Stefan Wollenberg of the German Press Agency. The left did not call for protests together with the AfD or demonstrate with them.
Party leader Wissler told the broadcaster “Welt” that there had been various protests in Neuruppin. “There were leftists there – and they demonstrated that there is a socially just and climate-friendly solution to the gas price crisis.” Of course, one cannot prevent right-wingers from appearing in the protests. She stayed with the call for a “Hot Autumn”. Without demonstrations, it would not be possible to prevent “social imbalance” in energy policy.
The CDU politician and former Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet sees the events in Neuruppin calmly. “What we have to make sure is that conspiracy theorists, leftists and right-wingers don’t misuse the anger, a question, the anger of the population for themselves. But in a democracy, a chancellor is sometimes booed,” he told the Welt television channel .
Deputy Left Chairwoman Katina Schubert campaigned for alliances with social organizations and trade unions with the aim “that we push Nazis out of our demonstrations”. The left could not seize the tradition of the Monday demonstration in the GDR – “we are now the SED successor party”.
Source: Stern
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