Die Linke leaders will step down, they announce, as party admits 'existentially threatening situation'
DIE LINKE’s co-leaders Janine Wissler and Martin Schirdewan will step down at October’s party conference, they have announced.
Germany’s Left party executive met at the weekend, agreeing to a main resolution to conference that acknowledges it is in a “dangerous, existentially threatening situation.”
It polled just 2.7 per cent in June’s European elections, barely half what it needs to ensure re-election to the Bundestag and less than half the vote of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, whose eponymous leader led a breakaway from Die Linke last year, primarily because of the latter’s failure to oppose militarism and back peace demonstrations.
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