The civil movement #aufstehn from Austria defends itself against Sahra Wagenknechts left collection movement #aufstehen: name, hashtag before the name, font and colors have been copied by the Austrian organization, said the managing director of #aufstehn based in Vienna, Maria Mayrhofer. She expects Wagenknecht to "change" the appearance accordingly until the official presentation of her September 4 move.

The Austrian #aufstehn has been around since 2015. With about 100,000 supporters, it was a civil society organization "from below," said Mayrhofer, it was a non-profit association and party political independent. "It is important to make it clear to the public that we have no connection to getting up and have no aspirations in this direction."

The left-wing movement has only one more "e" in its name. "In particular, on the subject of asylum policy, we differ from the contents of Sahra Wagenknecht," it says in a statement.

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The movement of Wagenknecht has already been pointed out, said Mayrhofer. There they spoke of a "pure coincidence" - and nothing happened. "We are now considering steps to take action against it," said the Austrian. For the supporters of #aufstehn the confusion is problematic because "we come through this unethical approach in the waters of a party-oriented movement".

Wagenknecht, the group leader of the Left in the Bundestag, has founded the rallying movement to facilitate a bipartisan left-wing majority. The movement is to be presented on 4 September in Berlin. Wagenknecht and her husband Oskar Lafontaine were initially unavailable for comment.


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