Berlin Left parliamentary group elects new board

The Left Party parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives elects a new board.

It will meet on Tuesday (2 p.m.) for its first meeting after the House of Representatives election.

The two previous parliamentary group chairmen Anne Helm and Carsten Schatz are standing for election.

The duo was only elected to office in June 2020 after the long-standing group leaders Carola Bluhm and Udo Wolf no longer took office.

Berlin - Helm was able to prevail against Franziska Brychcy, who had declared her opponent at short notice.

Brychcy is now running for deputy group leader, just like Manuela Schmidt.

Both have already belonged to the board of directors, Schmidt was also Vice-President of the House of Representatives.

Tobias Schulze, already one of the deputy parliamentary group leaders, is running again.

On the other hand, Katrin Seidel no longer competes for it.

Regina Kittler can no longer stand as a candidate, she missed her entry into the state parliament.

Other posts are also elected, such as that of Parliamentary Director.

For this, Steffen Zillich competes again.

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The left is represented in the new state parliament with 24 members, three fewer than in the previous legislative period.

According to the official final result, it came to 14.1 percent in the election to the House of Representatives on September 26th.

It was the fourth strongest party behind the SPD (21.4), the Greens (18.9) and the CDU with 18.0 percent.

The constituent meeting of the AGH is scheduled for November 4th.

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