Sahra Wagenknecht's book “The Self-Righteous” displeases some party colleagues.
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The party leadership reacts.
Berlin - Did Sahra Wagenknecht inflict “serious damage” on the left?
This is what several members of the party claim and on Thursday called for a party expulsion process against the former parliamentary group leader.
The party leadership strongly contradicts the idea.
Federal Managing Director Jörg Schindler said in a statement on Friday “for the party” that the application was “not correct and not justified”.
Schindler called on the left to unity: Political controversies are resolved through the exchange of arguments and not otherwise.
During election campaigns, dealing with political opponents has priority.
The day before it became known that several party members from Wagenknecht's state association of North Rhine-Westphalia had applied for exclusion.
According to a report in
Spiegel magazine
, they accused Wagenknecht of deviating from “elementary principles” of the party and of causing “serious damage” to the left.
Wagenknecht's “self-righteous” annoy members of the left
As evidence, they cite statements made by Wagenknecht in interviews and passages from her book “The Self-Righteous”.
There Wagenknecht leaves open, for example, whether she wants to stay in the party at all after the federal election.
"Sahra Wagenknecht represents, as demonstrated here, its own program that contradicts the program of the left in many points," it says.
The critics also
point out, according to
the
Spiegel
, that the NRW left has lost 30 percent of the votes in the polls since Wagenknecht's freestyle for the top candidate in the state.
More than a hundred members have resigned from the regional association.
Wagenknecht was nominated at a party conference in April with around 60 percent of the vote.
Wagenknecht has been criticized by the Left for weeks because of her book. In the past few weeks, a dispute between Wagenknecht's partner, the former left-wing federal chairman Oskar Lafontaine, and his Saarland regional association had caused a stir.
(dpa / AFP / frs)