In the middle of the ongoing dispute with MP Sahra Wagenknecht, the Left Party is trying to sharpen the party’s profile and prepare for re-entry into the Bundestag in 2025. The chairmen Janine Wissler and Martin Schirdewan presented a strategy paper for a “comeback”, as the news portal T-Online reported on Wednesday. The key points are the acquisition of 10,000 new members by 2025 – most recently there were around 54,000 – and a sharp demarcation from AfD topics. A party spokesman confirmed the plan.
“We now have to make preparations for the federal elections,” Wissler told the portal. “The work plan created a stable basis for common ground.” The paper was approved unanimously by the board over the weekend. The aim is therefore to clear up points of contention in foreign policy and to make redistribution even more of a topic. The party wants to continue to clearly commit to social policy, but also to climate protection.
In doing so, she distances herself from the political course of Wagenknecht and her supporters. Wagenknecht is considering founding a rival party and wants to declare itself by the end of the year. The party executive had therefore demanded at the weekend that she should give up her Bundestag mandate.
Clarity and the courage to conflict with the rich and corporations are expected from the left, Schirdewan told the portal. “We will counter the agitation from the right and the organized sadness of the traffic light policy with a new start that will give people hope again.”
