Sahra Wagenknecht criticized: is there a risk for government participation?

The state chairman of the Thuringian BSW, Steffen Schütz, warned of breaking up the Erfurt state government. According to the minister, the attempts to destroy do not come from the coalition partners CDU and SPD – but from his own party.

“There are efforts in the Federal Party, but also within the state association to end the government participation in Thuringia,” said Schütz star. He decidedly opposed that.

The BSW rules in Thuringia with the CDU and SPD. Because the coalition in the state parliament only gets a stalemate, it is also dependent on votes from the left-wing faction. If the alliance breaks, there could be changing majorities with the AfD under Björn Höcke.

Schütz also addressed his criticism directly to party founder Sahra Wagenknecht. “I personally affect me if the federal chairman undisputedly says only ten weeks after taking office that we are not even able to make a free lunch for students in Thuringia,” he said. The BSW is only at the beginning with the government work, but has already achieved a lot, explained Schütz. “Anyone who looks at the government contract reads the handwriting of the BSW on almost every page.”

Schütz leads the state party together with Vice President and Finance Minister Katja Wolf. He also heads the Ministry of Infrastructure.

Since the BSW narrowly missed the re -entry into the Bundestag in the Bundestag election, high party officials have been overwhelming with mutual allegations. The . In it, BSW head of state Wolf is accused of not being sufficiently involved in the Bundestag election campaign. The Rhineland-Palatinate head of land Alexander Ulrich suggested her resignation.

Wolf’s co-boss Schütz said that he “decisively” reject the allegations. At the same time, he criticized the strategy of the Federal Party. “The result of the Bundestag election campaign has nothing to do with Thuringia, but with the fact that only the peace issue was concentrated externally,” he said. The programmatic width of the BSW showed itself “too little” in the Bundestag election campaign.

In the meantime, it is speculated in the Thuringian BSW that members should again be admitted to the state board in order to decide on the state government at the end of April at the end of April. Schütz did not want to confirm or deny this on request.

MEP Thomas Geisel sees a central factor for the Bundestag election result in the east in the membership policy of the Federal Party. “If something was responsible for the decline in approval after the state election, then rather the admission of members at the Thuringian Landespitze,” said Geisel, who is also a member of the federal board star. “This was clearly the case of the purpose of delegitimizing Katja Wolf and ensuring that majorities take care,” he said.

The Secretary General of the Federal Party, Christian Leye, only wanted to comment on the quarrels on request. After each election, there are debates about the outcome of elections in parties, he told that star. “This is simply part of the democratic background noise.”