BSW: „Es geht nur um Ideologie“: Thüringen zeigt, wie Wagenknechts Macht schwindet
Sahra Wagenknecht wollte Thüringens BSW auf Linie zwingen – und scheiterte. Nun droht der Machtkampf zu eskalieren, während die Partei sich zunehmend von ihrer Gründerin entfremdet.
Berlin – The founder of the BSW, Sahra Wagenknecht, is always plotting her next move. It was foreseeable that the BSW founder would attempt a coup against her state party in Thuringia one day. The BSW people there, led by chief Katja Wolf, had long been annoyed by Wagenknecht. After all, they did something that would have been celebrated in almost any other party: following the 2024 state election, where the BSW received a respectable 15.8% of the vote, the state party joined a government with CDU and SPD.
Besides Wolf, who serves as Vice-Chancellor and Finance Minister, the alliance holds two other ministerial positions. They have been governing quietly for nearly two years, according to some. A success? Not in Wagenknecht's eyes. She considered the Thuringian government participation from the start to be a kind of operational failure that threatened the pure doctrine of her alliance. After all, those who govern cannot effectively fight against other governments.
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