The power struggle within the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance is coming to a head: the BSW heads of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt are calling for a separation of government and party offices, thereby opposing the current head of the Thuringian state association.
Neighboring state associations in favor of separation
In order to adequately represent the interests of citizens, a distanced and critical exchange between parliamentary and party work is needed, the head of the BSW in Saxony, Sabine Zimmermann, told the German Press Agency in Erfurt. "Accordingly, we would not have had dual functions of party and ministerial offices in the long term if we had joined a government."
John Lucas Dittrich, state chairman of the BSW in Saxony-Anhalt, said it made sense to clearly separate party offices and public offices. "This strengthens the necessary control and makes it possible to represent the positions of the BSW clearly and independently to a state government."
