From the PDS to the Left Party to the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance – the politician of the same name has come a long way, and not just politically. She will be 55 years old on July 16th – and she has ambitions. Before the founding party conference of the BSW, Wagenknecht told the “”: “We must be prepared to possibly participate in a government.” After the successful European elections in June – they achieved 6.2 percent from the start – the ex-Left Party is likely to have its sights set on the state elections in the east.
The polls should be viewed with caution. However, new surveys predict double-digit results for the BSW in Thuringia, Brandenburg and Saxony. The party is not Wagenknecht’s first attempt at a new political movement.
In January, Sahra Wagenknecht officially founded her own party
She has been politically active since 1989 and has been a member of the Bundestag since 2007. She rose quickly in the PDS and its successor party, the Left, from deputy to party chairwoman.
At the same time, she pursued her own goals. She made headlines in 2018 with the left-wing movement Aufstehen, as well as with her Manifesto for Peace 2023, in which she called for an immediate halt to arms deliveries to Ukraine. She was widely criticized for both, and both were scrapped after a short time. But that doesn’t seem to be stopping her.
Little is known about the politician’s private life. In 1997, she married the filmmaker Ralph-Thomas Niemeyer on Karl Marx’s birthday. The marriage was officially divorced in 2013. Today, Niemeyer is mainly associated with the Reich Citizens’ Movement.
She seems to have more luck with her current spouse. In 2014, she secretly married the former Left Party leader Oscar Lafontaine. The two live together in a villa in Saarland.
Lafontaine has now joined the BSW, which is also his third party after the SPD and the Left. The 80-year-old even appeared as the main speaker at the BSW’s founding party conference in January. This took place in the former GDR cinema Kosmos in Berlin, on – surprise – Karl-Marx-Allee.
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Source: Stern
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