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Future left leader Hennig-Wellsow wants to prepare the party for green

2021-02-24T06:28:28.095Z


Susanne Hennig-Wellsow will probably take over the leadership of the left in a few days. The decades as a pure opposition party should then be over - the designated boss already has a certain alliance in mind.


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Susanne Hennig-Wellsow - still state chairman of the Left in Thuringia, soon to be head of the federal level

Photo: Michael Reichel / dpa

In a few days, the Left Party will elect two new chairmen at its party conference, which has been postponed several times - then the comrades will finally want to start the election campaign.

If one of the designated bosses, Susanne Hennig-Wellsow, has its way, the goal should be government participation in the fall.

“We have to be prepared if the window for government participation opens this year.

We shouldn't be frightened by such a possibility, "said Hennig-Wellsow of the dpa news agency in Erfurt.

»My goal is a federal government without a CDU - preferably a green-red-red one.

I advocate getting ready for government. "

Left are preparing for all-female dual leadership

The 43-year-old Hennig-Wellsow, who has been managing the Left in Thuringia as the ruling party for more than six years, will run for the party leadership at an online party conference on Saturday together with the Hessian parliamentary group leader Janine Wissler.

If successful, a pair of female leaders would replace the previous management duo Katja Kipping and Bernd Riexinger after almost nine years.

There are no promising opponents.

The Left would then be the first large party in Germany with an all-female dual leadership.

In contrast to Wissler, who considers a government of the Greens, SPD and Left Party to be unlikely, Hennig-Wellsow said their goal was to prepare the left for participation in the government.

There are similarities with the Greens and the SPD, for example, in climate policy and social issues such as basic and citizens' insurance.

You stand for a "radical realpolitik".

More control over the parliamentary group

It is clear to her that government participation sounds unrealistic at first glance.

Her experience in Thuringia, where the left has been prime minister with Bodo Ramelow since 2014, says: "If you don't show that you want to govern, you will never succeed." Hennig-Wellsow referred to the left’s government experience in others as well East German federal states.

In response to surveys indicating that there is no majority for Green-Red-Red, she said: “The party system is very volatile.

It will be exciting to see what happens when Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves the stage. "

If they are elected, Hennig-Wellsow wants to give up their offices as state and parliamentary group chairman.

She is aiming for a candidacy for the Bundestag, she said.

As a result of years of trench warfare, she wanted to strengthen the influence of the party leadership on the parliamentary group.

“The people vote for the party.

And the party is in the word with the people, «she told the editorial network Germany (RND, Wednesday).

"Therefore it is also the party that determines the direction of our policy in the Bundestag." In the past there had been frequent friction in Berlin between party and parliamentary group leaders of the Left.

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Source: spiegel

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