Left faction leader Amira Mohamed Ali is resigning from her post because of her party’s dealings with Sahra Wagenknecht. “I have decided not to run for the chairmanship of the Left Party in the Bundestag in the coming board elections,” said Mohamed Ali in a statement that was available to the German Press Agency. “This decision has political reasons.”
The final tipping point was the distancing of the party leadership from Wagenknecht at the beginning of June. In the statement, Mohamed Ali gives several reasons. The 43-year-old writes that she is finding it increasingly difficult to represent the course of the party leadership in public. This contradicts their political convictions in many places.
Among other things, she criticized the fact that no “fundamental no to the wrong course of the traffic light government” was formulated, for example to climate policy, which “above all makes the everyday life of many people even more difficult and expensive, which promotes social inequality”. There is also a lack of “a clear yes to a consistent peace policy”.
Dealing with Wagenknecht was “last rash”
The party leadership wants to win over disappointed Greens voters, but they don’t succeed. On the other hand, one cannot reach those for whom left-wing politics should be made, not even AfD voters “who can still be won back”.
“The final tipping point for my decision was the unanimous decision of the party executive of June 10, 2023 and the fact that the large majority of the state executives adopted this decision,” the statement said. “It says that Sahra Wagenknecht has no future in the left and that she should resign her mandate together with other members of parliament. This shows in a hitherto unknown clarity the desire and the goal to force part of the membership out of the party.”
Mohamed Ali is regarded as a confidante of Wagenknecht. This has fallen out with the party leadership and is considering founding its own party. Wagenknecht has not yet announced a decision.