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The Rapid Decline of the Left
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Katja Kipping (right), Sahra Wagenknecht and Dietmar Bartsch united for the left? The photo comes from the federal party conference in June 2018 – and is obviously in the past.
(Photo: Britta Pedersen/DPA)
The situation is miserable: Causa Wagenknecht, lost state elections, no more government participation in Berlin. And now the new electoral law, fatal for the left, is threatening. Can the party still save its existence?
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Boris Herrmann, Berlin
How’s the left doing? More like the indestructible faction leader Dietmar Bartsch or like the increasingly mysterious Gregor Gysi? More like the hard-working but hapless party chairman Janine Wissler or the inner-party opposition leader Sahra Wagenknecht or Bodo Ramelow, who is always hovering over things? That’s one of the basic problems of this party: the answer always depends heavily on who you ask the question.
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