After the federal election in 2021, the left will come below the 5 percent limit.
Nevertheless, they are part of the Bundestag and come together for parliamentary group meetings.
Update from Tuesday, 09/28/2021, 11:50 a.m.:
Left-wing politicians have been
discussing
since 11 a.m. in their first parliamentary group meeting after the federal election.
The party was only barely able to gain entry to the Bundestag because of its three direct mandates.
Now the left has to reposition itself.
Wissler and Bartsch miss direct mandates - the left fails at the five percent hurdle
+++ 1.45 p.m.:
The left fails with 4.9 percent of the five percent hurdle, but wins three direct mandates for the Bundestag. Now the party leadership has announced an unconditional analysis of the election failure and a realignment of the party. She sees this “severe defeat” as a “last chance” to develop the party forwards, said left leader Susanne Hennig-Wellsow on Monday in Berlin. From their point of view, the left must “reinvent” itself.
The top candidate Janine Wissler and the top candidate Dietmar Bartsch are also demanding consequences from the election result of the left in the federal elections.
It was a "heavy blow" for the left, said Wissler.
It must now be a matter of "using the next four years and reorganizing the party".
The left must make it clear that it is the party of social justice.
Federal election 2021: Leftists fail at five percent hurdle and get three direct mandates
+++ 10.10 a.m.:
The preliminary result, which the Federal
Returning Officer
announced at 6 a.m., shows it: The left remains at 4.9 percent and thus fails at the five percent hurdle.
However, due to the direct mandates (see update from 5.36 a.m.), the left is still represented in the Bundestag.
+++ 5.36 a.m.:
The left wins three direct mandates and moves safely into parliament. This means that the party will again be represented in parliamentary groups in the upcoming Bundestag - even if it fails to pass the five percent hurdle. The MPs Gregor Gysi and Gesine Lötzsch in Berlin and Sören Pellmann in Leipzig can defend their direct mandates. Petra Pau, however, was defeated in her Berlin constituency. After counting almost all the first votes, this also applied to the previous fifth direct mandate of the Left, also in Berlin. In the latest projections for the federal election by ARD and ZDF, the left is 4.9 percent.
+++ 1.54 a.m.:
Dietmar Bartsch, top candidate of the left for the federal election in 2021, missed the direct mandate in constituency 14 Rostock - Rostock II district.
The previous parliamentary group leader of his party in the Bundestag received 18.2 percent of the first votes, as was published early on Monday morning on the homepage of the state returning officer.
His competitor Katrin Zschau from the SPD came to 27.0 percent and thus bought the ticket for the parliament in Berlin.
Bundestag election 2021: Leftists are likely to secure three direct mandates - enough for the Bundestag
+++ Update from Monday, 09/27/2021, 0.48 a.m.:
Sören Pellmann (left) defended his direct mandate in the 2021 federal election in the south of Leipzig. According to the regional election control, he received 40,927 first votes on Sunday and thus 22.8 percent. At the same time, he was well ahead of the runner-up, Paula Piechotta from the Greens (32,994 votes, 18.4 percent). In the 2017 election, Pellmann received 25.3 percent of the first votes. In view of the projections with values of 4.9 to 5.0 percent, the left needed at least three direct mandates for a safe entry into the Bundestag. According to the party, that was almost certain in the evening.
+++ 11.45 p.m.:
Suddenly the left would no longer be in the Bundestag.
According to the latest projection by Infratest Dimap (ARD), the Left Party received only 4.9 percent of the vote.
The remaining parties around the SPD and Union are sticking to their values compared to projections for the Bundestag election earlier in the evening.
Despite the fact that Janine Wissler missed her direct mandate, three other direct mandates (two in Berlin, one in Leipzig) will ensure that the Left Party will move into the 20th Bundestag.
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Janine Wissler, the top candidate of Die Linke, has to fear that her party will enter parliament after the federal election in 2021.
© Wolfgang Kumm / dpa
+++ 11.10 p.m.:
It was not enough for the federal chairman of the left.
According to current projections, Janine Wissler missed the direct entry into parliament.
Wissler started in the constituency of Frankfurt am Main I *.
After counting 266 of the 271 polling stations, the 40-year-old politician is clearly behind Armand Zorn from the SPD with just 8.8 percent.
In 2017 Matthias Zimmer (CDU) prevailed in the constituency.
Janine Wissler was the top candidate of the left in Hesse in 2021.
She has been the parliamentary group leader in the Hessian state parliament since 2009.
The left has to tremble about entering parliament in the Bundestag election
First report from Sunday, September 26th, 2021, 9.45 p.m.:
Berlin - After the federal election in 2021 *, the left * must fear for its four direct
seats in
Berlin so far in the Bundestag *. After about a third to half of the votes cast had been counted, the left-wing candidates were only in the lead in two constituencies around 9 p.m. In Treptow-Köpenick, Gregor Gysi was in second place with an intermediate result of 33 percent of the first votes *, far ahead of the SPD * with 15 percent. In Lichtenberg, Gesine Lötzsch led with 24 percent before the SPD with 19 percent.
In Marzahn-Hellersdorf, however, the former Berlin Senator for Social Affairs Mario Czaja from the CDU * was with 29 percent ahead of the Bundestag Vice President Petra Pau (left) with 20 percent.
In Pankow, the SPD candidate Klaus Mindrup led with 22 percent, ahead of the left-wing politician Udo Wolf with 15 percent.
There, however, only 20 percent of the polling stations were counted.
Bundestag election 2021: The left is worried about direct mandates - and moving into the Bundestag as a parliamentary group
The Left won the 2017 Bundestag election * as the fifth direct constituency of Leipzig II.
There was still no intermediate result on election evening.
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Federal election 2021: All current results
Three directly elected MPs secure a party entry into the Bundestag even if it achieves less than 5 percent in the whole of Germany.
In the first projections for the federal election in 2021 on Sunday evening, the left was exactly at this limit.
The top duo of the party consists of Janine Wissler and Dietmar Bartsch *.
(lrg / tab / dpa) *
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