Left Party: Oskar and Jean-Luc go voters gather

This Sunday, a dispute over the nature of the Left party reached its climax. In the centre: the eternal Oskar Lafontaine and his pathetic French friend.

Left Party: Oskar and Jean-Luc go voters gather
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  • Page 1 — Oskar and Jean-Luc go picking voters
  • Page 2 — Mélenchons patic, sometimes almost kitschy language.
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    Wassoll that be, a leftist collection movement? Perhaps first of all: many, many left-wing people who gar on a cold Sunday afternoon in EINERBESTIMMT hundred meters long line to participate in "PolitischenJahresauftakt" of Bundestag faction of Left party. Since wipe in front of event centre Kosmosan Karl-Marx-Allee, y will not even fit all in end, and soist first realization of this weekend for party so important: next year it needs a larger hall.

    Seitzwei weeks, party leads a somewhat nervous debate that revolves around DiesenBegriff: The left-hand collection movement. Everything started with a sentence that former chairman Oskar Lafontaine threw in an airport lounge of a mirror editor and thus SeinerPartei: "We need a left Sammlungsbewegung, a kind of leftist people's Party, in which left, part DerGrünen and The SPD. " He said it, got on plane, picked it up – and could n, so to speak, follow from above, as all dieParteifunktionsträger with this sentence fought down. He had thrown a stone into water, which now struck his waves.

    No, party chairmen Bernd Riexinger and Katja Tipping said it brauchtnichts new, Left party is already collection enough. However, said SahraWagenknecht, Lafontaine's wife and one of two group chairmen, Onlywith with disappointed Social Democrats and also AfD voters (from Grünenwar re is no more talk) left would have enough influence. "It's got to skip radio," he says.

    Gysi Unmistakable casual rhetoric

    This Sunday now moves in Cosmos Gregor Gysi. In Gysi-typischenNebenbei rhetoric, but unmistakably: "By way," he says in his Redeim crowded Hall, " left needs a lot, but I find: no NeuePartei." And what does Lafontaine himself, who is also doing this Sunday? He acts as if he didn't mean it all: "My Bemerkungenzielte not primarily on Left party, some have misunderstood that," he says. "They were aiming at SPD. I don't want to watch SPD more down drain. " If this continues on great Koalitioneneinlasse, "it has 15 percent and we maybe 12. Dasreicht not to stop right."

    Wardann discussion superfluous, hysterical? Judging by audience BeimJahresauftakt: Yes. This is hardly interested in this parteitaktischenFragen, but very much for categorical rejection of all arms exports UndKriegsbeteiligungen, which hardly a speaker forgets to install. Dielinke supporters also like to go and clamor when Lafontaine or DerFraktionsvorsitzende Dietmar Bartsch Union and SPD are attacking to plan keineReichensteuer and not to touch ownership at all.

    AberSympathisanten don't have to be interested in tactical questions, but Unddiese can still be important. On left, Schließlichchronisch asks who y want to talk to. How Breitsie want to make a success. Already now y assemble positions UndPersonen in mselves, between which distance is sometimes so great that DiePartei constantly has to define common programmatic screen so dassauch all of m still fit underneath. That's what tipping undRiexinger mean when y say left is already EineSammlungsbewegung.

    Manchmalführt this to a rule-right contortion. This weekend, for example, party fertilizers practically split for two days. In addition to event Incosmos, re was a second "political year kick-off", Veranstaltetnicht by group but party. Their leaders met with representatives from countries to file ir own policies. The Beidengetrennten "Start of year" teams only met on Sunday morning at tomb of Karl and Rosa Luxemburg, who were Jahrenermordet on Monday before 99. The commemoration of two socialists was kleinstegemeinsame denominator this weekend.

    Date Of Update: 15 January 2018, 12:02
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