Germany: Wagenknecht Under Scrutiny for Choice of Bank
A €75 donation from Russia and an account in a financial institution also used by a Russian media company has been enough for the new BSW party to come under fire.
A €75 donation from Russia and an account in a financial institution also used by a Russian media company has been enough for the new BSW party to come under fire.
The Bundestag has revoked socialist party Die Linke’s official status, expediting its financial liquidation.
The leading German leftist said “banning unpopular parties because they become too strong is incompatible with a free society.”
Wagenknecht said, “We decided to found a new party … otherwise we probably won’t recognize our country in ten years.”
More than three decades after the end of the communist GDR, the successor to the former state party is being ripped apart by internal divisions.
AfD polls 12 percentage points ahead of the SPD, which has ruled Brandenburg for the past 30 years.
Wagenknecht’s foreign policy would rely “on diplomacy instead of arms deliveries.”
With Carola Rackete’s candidacy—she will be running as an independent—critics fear further tension and division within the Left Party.
A hotly anticipated left-wing, anti-immigration party seems set to emerge as multiple MPs pledged support to Sahra Wagenknecht the past week and Die Linke entered crisis talks to avoid a schism.
Angela Merkel successfully transformed the classical-conservative CDU of Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl into a socialist party, and turned the party establishment into a real left-wing establishment.
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