“We want a different policy”
BSW founds the first regional association in Saxony
February 25, 2024, 12:10 p.m
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There will be elections soon in Saxony. In addition to the established parties, the Wagenknecht party is also entering the race. She is founding her first regional association in Chemnitz and is hoping for double-digit results in the fall.
By founding the first state association in Saxony, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) wants to send a signal to the entire country ahead of the upcoming local and state elections. “It is urgently necessary for all the many people in our country who are rightly disappointed with the prevailing politics to finally have a serious alternative, a serious party that they can vote for. nnen,” said BSW co-chairwoman Amira Mohamed Ali after the party was founded in Chemnitz. Your party is ready to take part in the coming elections. Sahra Wagenknecht herself was not present at the general meeting.
In the future, the Saxon regional association is to be led by a dual leadership: the former Left Bundestag member Sabine Zimmermann and the entrepreneur Jörg Scheibe. The BSW had already formed as a federal party in January. Now the anchoring in the countries should follow.
“We want a different policy. We want economic reason, peace, social justice and freedom to finally be the most important cornerstones for politics in Germany,” said Mohamed Ali. This is currently not the case. The current federal government is massively endangering Germany as a business location. In addition, she is choking off criticism with morally charged debates – especially with regard to the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. Instead, Germany needs a voice for peace and de-escalation.
Linke wants to promote content again
In Saxony, the new party wants to run in the local elections in June and in the state elections at the beginning of September. The Saxon co-leader Zimmermann advocated a “sensible economic policy and energy policy”. Among other things, she spoke out in favor of stopping arms deliveries to Ukraine. She also wants to focus on social justice in the Free State. The alliance is aiming for “a good double-digit result” in the state elections.
Her former party colleague and group leader of the Left in the Bundestag, Sören Pellmann, sees the Left on the right path despite the split of Sahra Wagenknecht and her fellow campaigners. In an interview, he told the “Leipziger Volkszeitung” that the discussions with state and district chairmen of his party gave him courage.
“The conflict may not be completely over with the spin-off, but we have the chance to stand up and finally promote content again.” It’s no longer “about people and their sensitivities”, but about the matter itself. The Left also wants to achieve a double-digit result in the state elections in September.