Two and a half months ago, the member of the Bundestag broke with the Left party. Now your competing project is ready to start. The new party has 1.4 million euros in starting capital.
The Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) officially founded itself as a party on Monday. At the beginning of the founding meeting in a Berlin hotel, Bundestag member Sahra Wagenknecht said that it was “a bit of a historic day” that “we are laying the foundation for a party that has the potential to fundamentally change the spectrum of German parties and, above all, the “To fundamentally change politics in our country.” The founding itself took place behind closed doors.
The party’s program and leadership will be officially presented at a press conference (1 p.m.). Dual leadership is expected. Wagenknecht had brought the former left-wing faction leader Amira Mohamed Ali into conversation. Wagenknecht recently indicated that she could also become part of the top duo. In addition to Wagenknecht and Mohamed Ali, the Bundestag member Christian Leye, the economist Shervin Haghsheno, the former left-wing politician Fabio De Masi and the long-time SPD politician Thomas Geisel, former mayor of Düsseldorf, have been announced for the press conference.
Wagenknecht and nine other members of the Bundestag left the Left party in October. The Sahra Wagenknecht alliance was initially founded as an association to prepare the party. She collected 1.4 million euros in donations as start-up capital for the party, as BSW treasurer Ralph Suikat told the editorial network Germany.
Source: Stern
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