Left rejects Wagenknecht move in dispute over special session

SELECTIONS Door door conversations with »The Left« – and what we as a KPÖ can learn from it. Door door talks, Munich-Harthof, February 2025 In the Bundestag elections on February 23, the Left reached 8,8% and thus 64 seats in the Bundestag. In view of the deep party crisis, the split of the faction around Sahra Wagenknecht, only 2.7% in the EU elections 2024 and sensitive defeats in the Landtag elections in East Germany, this is an amazing resul…

The Left Party has rejected an advance by its former parliamentary leader Sahra Wagenknecht, together with the AfD, by convening the new Bundestag to disembark the old one before the special session on Tuesday. Unlike Wagenknecht, the Basic Law does not allow a third of the deputies to convene the new Bundestag, said Christian Görke, Parliamentary Managing Director of the Left Group, the Redaktion Network Germany (RND). For the constitution, the…

The Left Party has rejected an initiative by its former parliamentary group leader Sahra Wagenknecht, together with the AfD, to disempower the old one before the special session on Tuesday by convening the new Bundestag. Contrary to what von Wagenknecht claims, the Basic Law does not allow a third of the members of parliament to convene the new Bundestag, the parliamentary managing director of the Left Group, Christian Görke, told the “editorial…