Sahra Wagenknecht is not excluded from the Left Party.
The arbitration commission of the North Rhine-Westphalian state association decided this unanimously.
"We are glad that there is a decision in this really unnecessary procedure," said the state spokesmen Christian Leye and Nina Eumann on Sunday.
“Neither our members nor our voters met this procedure with understanding.” The decision will give Wagenknecht a tailwind in the remainder of the election campaign.
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According to a report by the magazine Der Spiegel, which first reported on the matter, a written justification should follow in two weeks. Applicants now have the option of contacting the Federal Arbitration Commission.
Wagenknecht is the top candidate of the North Rhine-Westphalian Left Party for the federal election.
In June, several of their comrades called for the former chairmen of the Left parliamentary group to be expelled from the party because the latter had inflicted “serious damage” on their party.
Above all, Wagenknecht's most recent book, “The Self-Righteous”, brought the applicants into the field against them.
Criticism of left parties
Wagenknecht, who is by far the most popular figure on the left even without a prominent position, takes left-wing parties in the bestseller, accusing them of losing sight of social issues and their traditional debates with gender, climate and organic food To have alienated voters and driven into the arms of the AfD.
The applicants had accused Wagenknecht of deviating from elementary principles of the left in their book and in various interviews. It represented its own program, which in many respects contradicted the program of the left. Since Wagenknecht's election as the top candidate in North Rhine-Westphalia, many comrades have resigned and the party has lost a lot of popularity in surveys. The serious damage to the party has already occurred. "It will be significantly greater if the campaign-like media storm against the political positions of the left by their most present representative in the media continues," it said. Wagenknecht was admittedly not impressed by this. Most recently, she spoke on the FAZ podcast at the weekend.
The party and parliamentary group leaders of the Left had vehemently positioned themselves against the exclusion proposal from NRW. Even the ultra-left co-federal chairman Janine Wissler said in June: “I do not think it is fundamentally right to clarify intra-party differences through exclusion procedures.” Wagenknecht and her party, which operates under changing names, have a long history of conflict together. That obviously connects.