The parliamentarian Thomas Lutze wants to declare his resignation from his party Die Linke and change his parliamentary group. It’s bad news for his previous party, which continues to lose importance.
Thomas Lutze is about to join the SPD and its parliamentary group. The former left-wing member of the Bundestag told the “Saarbrücker Zeitung” on Sunday: “I will declare my resignation today.” A corresponding email should be sent to the Left on Sunday evening. The Left parliamentary group would thus shrink from 39 to 38 mandates – just above the limit for parliamentary group status of 37.
The Saarbrücken politician wants to keep his Bundestag mandate. Lutze told the newspaper that he had already spoken to SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich about joining the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag and received a confirmation. The Saarland SPD member of the Bundestag Christian Petry confirmed this to the newspaper. Mützenich assured that he would receive the outgoing left-wing politician “collegially”. This should officially happen on Tuesday.
The prerequisite is that Lutze already holds the SPD party ticket at that point, Petry continued. However, he assured Lutze that he had not been given “any promises or other promises” by Mützenich or the party in general due to his upcoming change.
Thomas Lutze no longer sees his previous party as a “left-wing corrective”
Lutze justified his departure from the Left by saying that he no longer perceived them as a “left-wing corrective to social undesirable developments”. “It’s been like this for years. The left is simply strategically poorly positioned,” he told the newspaper.
At the time of his departure, Lutze said: “I don’t want to tip the scales so that the Left loses its faction status as a result of my departure.” This development is threatened by a possible departure of Sarah Wagenknecht and some of her supporters when a new party is expected to be founded. Lutze justified his resignation this evening by saying that he wanted to wait for the polling stations for the state elections to close so as not to influence them.
The 54-year-old has been a member of the Bundestag for the Left since 2009. He told the “Saarbrücker Zeitung” that he assumed that the current legislative period would be his last in the Bundestag.
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Source: Stern
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