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Demmin (dpa / mv) - The Left in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is going into the election campaign with the aim of entering the Bundestag and Landtag in September and pushing the Union into the opposition.
«Let us go into this election battle resolutely and together.
We can achieve a lot this year.
It is completely open how the federal election and how the state election will end, "said the head of the left-wing parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Dietmar Bartsch, on Saturday at the list party conference of the Northeast Left in Demmin (Mecklenburg Lake District).
The left can confidently go into the election campaign.
"We have been the social opposition in this country and can show results," he said.
With 93.5 percent, around 110 voters present voted the 62-year-old, who was born in Stralsund, first on the state list for the federal election.
Bartsch announced that he wanted to win the direct mandate in Rostock, which he narrowly missed against the CDU competitor in 2017.
It was time to send the Union into the opposition, said Bartsch, without commenting on any conceivable left-wing alliances.
Simone Oldenburg was elected as the top candidate for the state elections that will take place on September 26th.
The chairman of the left parliamentary group in the state parliament received 93.7 percent of the vote.
In her application speech, she denounced deficits in education, health care, wages and pensions.
"It needs a left as a guarantor of justice that knows that it is about the elderly, the nurse, the parcel carrier, the saleswoman," said the 51-year-old.
She urged her party to fight for the votes of the electorate, united and determined.
In 2016, the Left achieved its worst result to date with 13.2 percent and only won eleven seats in the state parliament.
In the 2017 federal election, the Northeast Left did better with 17.8 percent.
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Bartsch got his party in the mood for the election campaign with sharp attacks on the CDU and CSU and referred to the affair about taking advantage of the procurement of protective masks.
"They're knee-deep in the moral swamp," he said.
The debate about it and the imminent departure of Chancellor Angela Merkel from politics suggested that the Union would lose votes.
“We are currently seeing that corruption in the Union will shake a lot.
What is currently going on there can really only be compared with a madhouse, ”said Bartsch.
He also included the two members of the Bundestag from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Philipp Amthor and Karin Strenz, who were criticized for other affairs.
Strenz stuck to her mandate despite her long-known business dealings with Azerbaijan.
"And if they then make Amthor, who earns additional income, their top candidate, then it is a declaration of bankruptcy by the Union," said Bartsch.
Amthor had withdrawn his candidacy for the CDU state chairmanship in the previous year because of lobbying allegations, but had recently been elected as the top candidate of the northeast CDU for the federal election.
Because of the ongoing corona pandemic, the left party conference had been postponed several times.
The two-day meeting takes place in a spacious tennis hall under strict hygiene regulations.
The position on the candidate lists decides who will move into parliament in addition to the politicians directly elected in the constituencies if the election results are appropriate.
In the last state and federal elections, none of the left-wing candidates won a direct mandate.
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