Left board member Dietmar Bartsch leaves his post. Since Sahra Wagenknecht and her followers left the Left, the party has been in crisis.
Now it is losing one of its most famous politicians in a prominent leadership position. "I will no longer stand for office at the parliamentary group meeting on February 19th and 20th," the 65-year-old told the German Press Agency in Berlin on Sunday. He said that with this step he was completing the withdrawal that he had already announced in August.