Party Congress of the Left: Group leader Dietmar Bartsch calls for unity
Created: 06/24/2022, 10:53 am
By: Stefan Krieger
Dietmar Bartsch appealed to his party before the new elections: Linke must "pull it together" at the party conference.
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The party conference of the left begins on Friday (June 12) in Erfurt
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Erfurt – Before the start of the Left Party Congress on June 24, Dietmar Bartsch, leader of the Bundestag faction, called on his party to “pull it together”.
"The party congress is an opportunity for the left to make a comeback," Bartsch told the
Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung
on Friday.
The signal must be: "We understand, we pull ourselves together."
"We not only have our say with more than two million voters," Bartsch continued.
"The wars of this world, the pandemics, the blatant social injustice, the climate crisis need a strong left that does not concern itself with itself, but aggressively represents the interests of the losers of the traffic light policy." In the party spectrum, the left is "the advocate of the little people".
That needs to be clearer.
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The left meets on June 24 from 12 noon for its party conference in Erfurt, where it elects a new leadership and positions itself on the Ukraine war.
In the wake of the sexism allegations in its Hessian state association, the party leadership decided to re-elect the entire party executive.
The party conference of the left takes place in Erfurt.
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On Friday, around 570 delegates will decide on a key motion by the party executive, in which Russia is accused of “imperialist policies” because of the Ukraine war.
A group led by former faction leader Sahra Wagenknecht, who sees the West as partly to blame for the war, is demanding changes to the text.
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Party Congress of the Left in Erfurt: Wagenknecht criticized Wissler
Before the party congress, Wagenknecht criticized the party executive committee led by party leader Janine Wissler.
"We need to rebuild our profile as a social justice party and as a peace party, instead of chasing after the Greens and soliciting sympathy in milieus where arms sales and war rhetoric are currently in vogue," she told the
RND
newspapers on Friday.
"I am appalled that parts of the party executive wanted to change the leading motion in such a way that even the approval of so-called 'human rights wars' that violate international law should be possible." Condemn the war waged by Russia against Ukraine just as sharply as the illegal wars waged by the USA and its allies in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere".
However, Wagenknecht will be absent from the party conference.
According to her own statements, she cannot participate due to illness.
At the beginning of the party congress, the incumbent party leader Janine Wissler speaks.
The speech will be followed by a discussion of the lead motions.
In the evening (8 p.m.) it will be about the "fight against patriarchal power structures, violence and sexism".
The board election is scheduled for Saturday (June 25).
(Talk to dpa/afp)