The Saxon Left is heading into the state elections on September 1st with its leadership duo Susanne Schaper (46) and Stefan Hartmann (56) Schaper received 93.7 percent of the votes for first place on the list at a representative meeting in Bautzen on Saturday. Hartmann came in second with 88.6 percent.
A decision on further candidacies will be made on Saturday evening and Sunday. The state list should include a total of 60 people. In the last state election in 2019, the Left in Saxony received 10.4% of the second votes. According to current surveys, they have to worry about getting back into parliament; most recently they only got five percent.. Saxony's leftists see themselves as representatives of the workers' interests. But the poll numbers are weak. With the party's leadership duo at the top, the election campaign should now begin. The program is shaped by the “social DNA” of the left; the left represents the interests of working people. “The left is united and it wants to make Saxony fairer,” emphasized Schaper and Hartmann.