Sachsen's left will choose a new board: Who will lead the party into the future?

Sachsen's left will choose a new board: Who will lead the party into the future?

Leipzig, Deutschland - This weekend a pioneering party conference of the Saxon left will take place in Leipzig. As Blick.de , this party congress is all about the change of management, because the previous chairman Susanne Schaper and Stefan Hartmann have announced that they no longer stand for their offices. Both want to concentrate on their roles as chairwoman of the parliamentary group in the future, according to an era that has been shaped since autumn 2019 by numerous challenges and crisis management, especially by splitting up Sahra Wagenknecht.

DIE LINKE has received a lot of tailwind in the past few months, because since the beginning of 2024 the party has won around 4,000 new members and has blossomed with 11,000 members into the greatest political force in Saxony, as dnn.de . A third of these members are newcomers who are mostly young and female. A remarkable increase that provides a clear sign of the spirit of optimism in the party.

candidates and goals

At the upcoming party conference, four candidatures are available to vote to succeed the party leadership. Anja Eichhorn, the previous deputy chairman, goes into the race together with the former member of the state parliament Marco Böhme. Silvio Lang, the Bautzner district chairman, and Marika Tänder-Walenta, the former member of the state parliament, compete as individual candidates. This shows that the left strives for a clear change of leadership to bring a breath of fresh air to party work.

The upcoming choice is submitted to a guidance, which should provide information about the strategic goals until the state election 2029. This includes three central points: to stay in Saxony's highest membership, to establish a stronger anchoring at the local level and to achieve a double -digit election result in the upcoming state election. These goals are intended to help the left to leave the setbacks suffered from the Bundestag election, in which they narrowly missed the five percent hurdle. Weight through a strategic structure of new members to consolidate and to put social issues at the center of their politics.

growth and challenges

The growth of the left is remarkable and there are plans to further promote this positive development through educational offers and more active actions. Seminars on party history and the core demands are planned in order to integrate the new members as best as possible. This focus on offspring and social topics shows that the left wants to take its place in the political landscape, also to counteract a potential tipping to the right. The influence of the left in state politics has apparently grown through this development, and it occurs in a new light that is shaped by an active caretaker.

Overall, the party congress in Leipzig not only promises a change of management, but could also mark a fresh start for the Saxon left, which wants to go into the upcoming political challenges with new ideas and fresh enthusiasm.