She was on the left for decades, but now Sahra Wagenknecht is going her own way. A new association is preparing to found its own party – including a member of parliament from Lower Saxony.
The Oldenburg politician Amira Mohamed Ali is joining Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party. The time has come to leave the Left, said the previous parliamentary group leader of the Left in the Bundestag on Monday in Berlin. At the same time, she announced that Wagenknecht and her supporters were “willing to remain in the left-wing faction” until their own party was founded.
Left-wing leaders call on Amira Mohamed Ali to resign from his mandate
The left-wing leadership in Lower Saxony, however, called on Mohamed Ali to resign from his mandate. “Decency would require this step,” explained the state executive. Instead, the trade unionist Mizgin Ciftci from Osterholz-Scharmbeck should move up, a spokesman for the Left said on Monday.
“The association “Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht – For Reason and Justice” was founded to prepare a new party,” it said in a written statement. In Germany, people have been “governing bypassing the wishes of the majority” for years.
Instead of rewarding performance, the money is redistributed from the hardworking to the top ten thousand. Lobby requests would be served and public coffers would be emptied. “Many people have lost trust in the state and no longer feel represented by any of the existing parties.”
In Bremen, the Left has been in power in a red-green-red government since August 2019 – for the first time in a West German country. “That had a lot to do with the fact that Sahra Wagenknecht’s camp didn’t play a big role here and we didn’t allow ourselves to be divided by controversial internal debates,” said a joint statement from the Bremen Left Party, the state executive board and the left-wing senators .
From the perspective of the left in Bremen, clarifying the conflict with Wagenknecht is an opportunity. “We know that our party now has the task of leaving old conflicts and gaps behind and strengthening the left-wing politics that are needed,” said the statement from Bremen.
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