Wagenknecht crisis deepens: members revolt - "Unacceptable"

The West Wagenknecht crisis deepens: members revolt - "Unacceptable" Henrik Jonathan Zinn • 12 hours • 2 minutes reading time Just two weeks before the federal election (as of February 6), the BSW, headed by its namesake Sahra Wagenknecht, is in deep crisis. Despite successes at state level and participation in the government in Thuringia, the federal level is in danger of failing to meet the threshold. After the controversial votes on migration policy, there is now more bad news. Because, as "Spiegel" reports, Wagenknecht's voting behavior is not without controversy internally. While the vote on the Union's motion for a resolution was abstained, but this enabled a majority, the BSW voted in favor of the Union law on limiting influxes with seven yes votes and three non-votes. Wagenknecht's course "overtaken on the left" Six members from Bavaria are said to have disliked this course so much that they have announced their resignation from the party. They are said to have submitted a corresponding declaration to the party executive. Klaus Ernst, Bavaria head of the BSW, confirmed this to "Spiegel". Sahra Wagenknecht is in danger of failing to meet the threshold and is losing members. "The fact that we have been overtaken on the left by some members of the CDU and FDP - on the subject of humanity - is unacceptable for us," the written statement says. Wagenknecht wanted to establish the BSW as a serious alternative to the AfD, but this course is now seen as being seriously endangered. BSW stagnates at four percent There must inevitably be a debate about the causes of flight, but all one sees is a "populist escalation that promotes unnecessary social divisions and runs the risk of using rhetoric from the right wing". With the votes, Wagenknecht and her party had contributed to the fact that "minorities" were being played off against "minorities". The six politicians also criticize their lack of substantive importance within the BSW. There was a "strongly hierarchical top-down structure" that prevented co-determination. According to Forsa (February 4), the BSW has been stagnating at four percent since mid-November and could therefore miss out on a place in the next Bundestag.