The two left-wing chairmen Janine Wissler and Susanne Hennig-Wellsow oppose the push from their party to expel the former parliamentary group leader Sahra Wagenknecht.
The political opponent is outside the party, not inside, Wissler told the newspaper Welt.
We are in contact with Wagenknecht, said Wissler.
“There are some differences within our party.
We can discuss them. ”But now it's about the election campaign and about achieving a strong election result, added Wissler, who is also the left's top candidate for the federal election.
Hennig-Wellsow emphasized with a view to the exclusion application against Wagenknecht in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, she said "very clearly that something like this is not possible".
The party faces political differences in discussions.
“Exclusion procedures are completely counterproductive.” Hennig-Wellsow also appealed to all party members to put aside content-related differences and to get fully involved in the election campaign.
Incidentally, she considers the motion against Wagenknecht to be "completely unfounded" on the merits as well.
Last week it became known that several party members from Wagenknecht's state association in North Rhine-Westphalia had filed for exclusion against the former parliamentary group leader. According to Spiegel magazine, they accuse the politician of deviating from “elementary principles” of the party and of causing “serious damage” to the left. Wagenknecht had recently sharply criticized her party, and she is also controversial because of her statements on refugee policy.
Wagenknecht himself protested against the accusation that she had inflicted serious damage on the party with her new book “The Self-Righteous”. "This is not a book about the party Die Linke," she told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung. “It is a book against a certain understanding of left politics, which we also have in our party, but which also exists in the SPD and in many European left parties.” That makes these parties weaker.