2023-10-24 00:04:00
Anyone who goes to the polls in 2024 will find a new party on the ballot in Germany. The former icon of the left, Sahra Wagenknecht, announced yesterday the founding of a new party with a small team of allies.
- What can voters expect from a Wagenknecht party?
Unlike the Left, Wagenknecht calls for a limit on the number of refugees and the import of cheap fossil energy such as natural gas from Russia. She rejects the sanctions once morest Russia because of the war in Ukraine, as well as arms deliveries to Ukraine. While the Left wants to accelerate the fight once morest climate change, Wagenknecht criticizes that heat pumps and electric cars are only for higher earners. The left-wing politician Gregor Gysi describes her positions as follows: “She wants to mix: social policy like the Left, economic policy like Ludwig Erhard and refugee policy like the AfD.” She herself says: “Many people no longer feel represented by any party and vote for the AfD out of desperation. I think it would be good if these people had a reputable address once more.”
- Who goes with Wagenknecht?
At yesterday’s presentation, the previous co-chair of the Left faction Amira Mohamed Ali, Wagenknecht’s confidant and parliamentary group colleague Christian Leye, the former managing director of the Left Party in North Rhine-Westphalia, Lukas Schön, and the entrepreneur Ralph Suikat were on the podium. They confirmed: Ten of the 38 Left MPs had left the party.
- How do you found a party?
The German Interior Ministry writes: “A party can basically come into being in two ways, namely by founding or by converting an already existing association into a party.” When founding a company, it must decide not only on statutes but also on a program. If it has a minimum of success in elections, it receives 83 cents annually for each vote, plus 45 cents for every euro from membership or elected representatives contributions or donations.
- What does the new party mean for the left?
The presentation of the “Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance” is considered a provocation. The Left only achieved 4.9 percent of the votes and three direct mandates in the 2021 federal election. It currently has 38 MPs. With the departure of Wagenknecht and Co., they can no longer continue as a faction, but only as a group. The chairmen Martin Schirdewan and Janine Wissler are hoping for a “comeback” when the dispute over the direction with Wagenknecht is finally over.
- And what does that mean for the other parties?
According to a new survey by the Insa Institute, 27 percent of people in Germany might imagine voting for a Wagenknecht party. Whether it really exploits its potential depends on the actual program and whether the party can really establish itself and organize itself nationwide.
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