Saxon Left has a new board

Anja Eichhorn and Marco Böhme are the new duo at the head of the Saxon Left Party. They were elected chairpersons of the state association at the party conference in Leipzig, replacing Susanne Schaper and Stefan Hartmann.

Eichhorn was previously deputy chairperson. The art historian comes from the district of Zwickau. Böhme, an urban and regional planner, grew up in Leipzig and was a member of the Saxon state parliament for ten years. The two stood as a team for the election of the dual leadership and prevailed against former state parliament member Marika Tändler-Walenta and Bautzen district chairman Silvio Lang.

Schaper and Hartmann in office for six years

After six years in office, Schaper and Hartmann did not stand for re-election. In future, they want to concentrate on their tasks as chairpersons of the state parliamentary group.

"Those were by no means easy years," said Schaper in Leipzig, referring to the coronavirus pandemic, the start of the war in Ukraine and the split of the BSW from the Left Party. Although they were the leaders of the crises, there was a happy ending. Their successors would now have to make their success permanent. They want to contribute to the necessary structural and substantive renewal in the state association and the federal party.

Under Hartmann and Schaper, the membership of the state association has more than doubled to 11,000 members. The Left Party thus overtook the CDU with around 9,500 members before the federal elections in February and is currently the party with the most members in Saxony.