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Linke advises on strategy for state elections
The Left wants to put social justice at the center, said federal chairwoman Janine Wissler. photo
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The Left wants to be heard as a social opposition. In the election campaign, the party also wants to get out of the polls low with a tough course against the traffic light government.
Wissler told the dpa that the Left wanted to put social justice at the center. “After the European elections, we have three state elections in East Germany, where the shrinking of public services is particularly noticeable. This is pushing many people to their limits and damaging social cohesion.”
The Left is calling, among other things, for hospitals and care facilities to be returned to non-profit ownership and for profit distributions to shareholders to be banned. “We are taking on those who withdraw profits from the health system and other areas of public services instead of improving people’s quality of life in everyday life,” said Wissler.
Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht is not an actual opponent
In the election campaign, the chairwoman does not see the newly founded Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) as the actual opponent. The Left wants to concentrate on the federal government, “which is driving the country against the wall in terms of social policy,” said Wissler. “The fact that people have no trust in politics is also due to the great disappointment of the previous traffic light policy. The federal government started with big promises and is leaving behind a pile of rubble and unfinished tasks for the majority of society.”
The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) wants to run in the state elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Bandenburg in September. According to an election survey from March, the Left in Saxony would get 5 percent of the vote, the BSW would get 11 percent. The alliance wants to form in Brandenburg in May. In the state, the Left recently got 6 percent in the Sunday question.