Bartsch withdraws from chairmanship of the Left Group. Bartsch said that with this step he was completing the withdrawal that he had already announced in August.
The left has been in a deep crisis for years. In the 2021 federal election, it only received 4.9 percent of the votes and only got into parliament with party strength through three direct mandates. In recent nationwide surveys, the BSW was at six to seven percent, while the Left was only at three to four percent.