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Ramelow accuses Wagenknecht of caliphate methods
Trouble between Bodo Ramelow and Sahra Wagenknecht’s party: Thuringia’s Prime Minister attacks the BSW – and accuses the alliance of damaging party democracy.
Ramelow warned: “Here, an organization that claims the party privilege is deliberately not opening itself up to its supporters.” Decisions will be made centrally in Berlin “as before”. In the direction of Wagenknecht, who once led the Left faction in the Bundestag, he asked: “Is this an oligarchy or even a caliphate?”
In surveys in some eastern German states, the BSW has immediately become a competitor to the other parties. Ramelow is once again the Left Party’s top candidate for the state elections in Thuringia on September 1st. The designated BSW top candidate Katja Wolf was a member of his state parliamentary group until 2012 and then served as mayor of Eisenach for the Left. In a current survey in Thuringia, both parties are at 16 percent and are therefore on equal terms.