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Former left-wing politician Melanie Wery-Sims
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The leader of the Rhineland-Palatinate Left Party, Melanie Wery-Sims, has announced she is leaving the party.
On Facebook she is harsh with the party.
The main motives are therefore how the left deals with #Metoo allegations and the foreign policy orientation.
Party leader Janine Wissler is also heavily criticized in the article.
The higher she rose in the party, "the uglier the arguments and hostilities became - at the same time I had to realize how little courage and backbone some people in the top posts have," writes Wery-Sims on Facebook.
The left's handling of the #Metoo allegations is "unspeakable" and there are still no consequences.
"A special district chairman can probably continue to call my photos on Facebook jerk off templates, call another comrade 'disabled' (to even use the word as an insult is absurd) and insult and threaten employees," writes the ex -Left.
In April, DER SPIEGEL revealed that there had been sexual assaults in the Hessian Left Party for years.
Ten men and women made allegations against members of the party.
The publication shook the left – at the time of the alleged incidents, Wissler was the party's country leader.
In her Facebook post, Wery-Sims also addresses the left's position on Russia and the war in Ukraine.
In the party, she was told that as state chairwoman, she also had to represent those who "understand Putin".
"I can't and don't want to do that because it goes against all my principles." When she wore a T-shirt with the words "FCK Putin," she was asked where her "FCK Obama" T-shirt was.
Confrontation with Wissler
The Facebook post becomes particularly sensitive when it comes to the candidacy for federal treasurer.
A few weeks ago, Wery-Sims planned to take office at the party conference in Erfurt.
But before the party conference, Wissler is said to have tried to dissuade her from running for office.
»When I ran for the office of Federal Treasurer, the chairwoman told me in no uncertain terms that she didn't see me there.
Because I would have to move to Berlin with my children, which would certainly not be an option,” writes Wery-Sims, and continues: “In addition, I cannot be paid for the office, since everyone now has to make financial cutbacks (from the mouth of a member of the Bundestag actually real satire).«
Wissler sits for the left in the Bundestag.
When asked by SPIEGEL, the federal party leader said about the allegations: "I reject what I am told in the reasons for leaving. Melanie Wery-Sims asked me for a phone call before the federal party conference about her candidacy for federal treasurer. In the phone call I told her said that I support the other candidate, Harald Wolf. For me, it was always important to be honest in the party when I gave feedback on candidatures. That was me in this case too."
Wery-Sims writes in her Facebook entry: »The reasons are much more complex, but that would now lead too far.
But everything together made me decide to leave the party.” She can't deal with the left's knowledge “from the inside”.
A simple resignation from the state presidency was therefore not an option.
This means that the state association is headless for the time being - the successor to Wery-Sims has not yet been decided and would have to be elected by a party conference.
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