New management team: Anja Eichhorn and Marco Böhme lead the left in Saxony!

New management team: Anja Eichhorn and Marco Böhme lead the left in Saxony!

Zwickau, Deutschland - Last Saturday there was really something going on in Leipzig, because the Saxon left chose a new board. Anja Eichhorn and Marco Böhme are now at the top of the party as a freshly baked duo. At the party congress, they prevailed in front of over 200 delegates against their competitors Marika Tänder-Walenta and Silvio Lang. The results were impressive: Eichhorn received 70.5 % of the votes, while Böhme came to 63.7 %. A strong sign for the two new chairs who want to start their term with fresh vigor. Schaper and Hartmann, the previous chairs, have given up the scepter after six years in order to focus more on their tasks in the parliamentary group, as Blick

What is the two new leaders? Anja Eichhorn, 39 years old, comes from the Zwickau district and was previously deputy chair. Marco Böhme, however,, 35, has his roots in Leipzig and has been in the Saxon state parliament for ten years. Both competed as a well -coordinated team and are determined to continue to position the left in Saxony. Eichhorn in particular emphasized the challenges of the past years during her application speech, among which its predecessors have grown, such as Corona pandemic and geopolitical developments around the Ukraine War.

member development of the left

The Saxon left can look forward to strong growth. The party currently has around 11,000 members and is the most members of the members in Saxony - even before the CDU with around 9,500 members. The number of members has more than doubled in the past six years. This positive development was also taken up by TAG24, where 46 % of the members are female and the average age is 44 years.

But the left has not only won members; It has also lost influence in the parliaments. In particular, voices were lost to the newly founded alliance of Sahra Wagenknecht. Nevertheless, the left is optimistic and sees a growth thrust that is also reflected in the dynamics of the political engagements of the citizens. This is confirmed by the latest developments that [sächsische.de] (https://www.saechische.de/sachsen/sachsen-so--s-gühne-telied-in-die-ein- und-aus-p2bge7xfkbcudbmdmdmdm6zi7gob4.html) documented. After the traffic light coalition in Berlin, more and more people are politically involved and enter into different parties.

open a new chapter

These changes have not remained entirely unnoticed, and the left must now work to regain its influence. The beginning is made and the new chairman is motivated to address the challenges. With a humorous handover act, in which Schaper and Hartmann presented the two new chairman green lightsers, the end of an era and the beginning of a new one was celebrated with a lot of vigor. It remains exciting to see how the newly elected chairperson will lead the party into the future.