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Delegates raise their voting cards during a vote at a state party conference of the Left Party.
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The Bremen Left have planned many topics for their party conference - including the election of the party executive committee.
There was no surprise.
Bremen - The Bremen Left confirmed their state executive board in office on Saturday.
Anna Fischer and Christoph Spehr continue to lead the party together in Bremen, according to the results of the election at a party conference.
The 26-year-old Fischer received 52 of the 58 votes cast, and 48 party members voted for her counterpart.
The duo has been at the head of the left for two years and had no opposing candidates.
A lot will be decided in the next two years, said Anna Fischer.
As state chairwoman, she wants to continue to build structures, lead debates and be present on site.
The student was born and grew up in Bremen.
In the 2022 election, she will prevail against the long-standing incumbent Cornelia Barth, who has since switched to the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW).
At its party conference, the Bremen Left once again clearly differentiated itself from the new party.
BSW has reservations about immigration, sticks to the combustion engine and advocates cheap gas from Russia, criticized Christoph Spehr.
“That is fear of change, that is fear of repression.”
In his next term as Left chairman, Spehr wants to work to give people a feeling of participation.
“What is happening has something to do with us,” said the 60-year-old.
He was born in Augsburg and has lived in Bremen since 1991.
The forest scientist and author has a doctorate and has been a member of the Left since 2005.
He was chairman of the Bremen Left from 2008 to 2015.
Since 2019 he has again led the party in the smallest federal state.
Other topics at the two-day party conference included the shift to the right in society, the suspension of the debt brake, the European elections and climate protection.
The Left has been involved in the red-green-red state government since 2019.
There she and Claudia Bernhard and Kristina Vogt are the health and economics senators respectively.
The Lower Saxony Left also gathered for the party conference in Hanover on Saturday.
The party re-elected activist Karlheinz Paskuda to a vacant position on the state executive board and unanimously passed a resolution on a strike in local public transport.
dpa