Does she stay or does she go? The top of the left wants clarity about Sahra Wagenknecht’s future plans. The member of parliament should explain himself.
Left faction leader Dietmar Bartsch has rejected a report about an alleged ultimatum to Left Party MP Sahra Wagenknecht about staying in the party. “I don’t know of any ultimatum,” said Bartsch on Deutschlandfunk.
The “taz” reported on a meeting between the executive party executive and Wagenknecht on May 25. Accordingly, Bartsch and the co-chairman of the parliamentary group Amira Mohamed Ali also took part. The party leaders Janine Wissler and Martin Schirdewan are said to have asked Wagenknecht to explain by this Friday whether they want to stay in the Left Party or leave, the newspaper reported, citing party circles. At a board meeting on June 10th, their answer or non-answer should then be discussed. Bartsch confirmed the meeting, “but there can be no talk of ultimatums,” he added.
The background to this are Wagenknecht’s considerations of founding his own party. She had announced that she would make a decision on this by the end of the year. She had previously declared that she would no longer run for the Bundestag for the left.
For a long time, Wagenknecht, the party leadership and other members have been arguing about fundamental positions, such as how to deal with the war in Ukraine. In refugee policy, she spoke out against open borders; she expressed skepticism about vaccination at Corona; and in her book “The Self-Righteous” she settled accounts with the part of her party that was committed to gender and the climate.
Source: Stern
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