Tag: Oscar Lafontaine
Gottschalk and Guttenberg: “We should manage a shit storm” – media
Of Roman Deininger Towards the end of these almost 300 minutes of TV, Thomas Gottschalk becomes fundamental again. “What moved you in 2022?” He asks his guest Marius Müller-Westernhagen. “Where…
Below left: eaten away by the argument
15 years after it was founded, the Left Party is on the brink – divided on content, the leadership worn out. Many members wish for a renewal. But how is…
State elections in Saarland: Scholz passes the first mood test – politics
Of Nico Fried, Berlin Some older social democrats may have remembered the 1999 state elections in Hesse. It was the first test after a few months before Gerhard Schröder had…
Saarland: Why Anke Rehlinger won the state election – opinion
comment by Detlef Esslinger How does a challenger make it into government headquarters? One of the wisdoms of political business is that the incumbent is voted out rather than being…
Lafontaine: “I wondered if it wouldn’t have been better to stay in the SPD”
Germany Oscar Lafontaine “I also asked myself whether it would not have been better to stay in the SPD” Status: 10:11 a.m | Reading time: 2 minutes Oskar Lafontaine turns…
Oskar Lafontaine: The sad end of a special – opinion
Oskar Lafontaine’s story began in the Saarland, and it ends exhausted in the Saarland. As if life, even this politically big one, wants to close in a circle at the…
Oskar Lafontaine resigns from the Left Party – politics
The co-founder and former chairman of the Left Party, Oskar Lafontaine, has left the party. According to the German Press Agency, the 78-year-old announced this on Thursday in Saarbrücken. “I…