The Left North Rhine-Westphalia

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The Left North Rhine-Westphalia
Die Linke logo.svg
Chairperson Inge Höger
Christian Leye
Deputy Nina Eumann
Britta Pietsch
Hans Decruppe
Jules El-Khatib
Treasurer Ralf Fischer
executive Director Sascha H. Wagner
Establishment date June 15, 2007
Place of foundation Gladbeck
Headquarters Alt-Pempelfort 15
40211 Düsseldorf
Landtag mandates
0/199
Number of members 8,292 (as of October 28, 2019)
Website www.dielinke-nrw.de

Die Linke Nordrhein-Westfalen (spelling: DIE LINKE. NRW) is the regional association of the German party Die Linke in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

prehistory

The WASG in North Rhine-Westphalia

The WASG eV association was founded on July 3rd, 2004, its state association in North Rhine-Westphalia at the state members' meeting on October 17th, 2004 in Duisburg . The party was founded on January 22, 2005 for the federal party and on January 26, 2005 for the state association in North Rhine-Westphalia. The speaker was Hüseyin Aydin .

The North Rhine-Westphalian state association received nationwide attention. The reason was the WASG's first participation in a state election. A conference of state delegates in Düsseldorf on January 23, 2005 selected forty candidates for the state reserve list with the Herne social pastor Jürgen Klute as the top candidate. In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2005 , the WASG immediately became the fifth strongest party, but with around 2.2% of the vote it clearly failed because of the five percent hurdle . In this election, the party competed with the future cooperation partner PDS.

On 25/26. March 2006 the first state party conference of the WASG took place in Dortmund.

PDS in North Rhine-Westphalia

The Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) ran for the state elections in 2000 and 2005 and achieved a result of 1.1% and 0.9% respectively.

The left in North Rhine-Westphalia

The Left Party came into being on October 21, 2007 when the WASG joined the Linkspartei.PDS North Rhine-Westphalia , after it had already cooperated nationwide in the 2005 Bundestag election under the name Die Linkspartei.PDS . In 2009, the party ran for the first time in local and federal elections in North Rhine-Westphalia. In May 2010 she made it into the Düsseldorf parliament in her first state election with 5.6 percent of the vote. After the elections in Hesse in 2008 and Saarland in 2009 , the left's third option to participate in a West German state government failed after an initial exploratory discussion with the SPD and the Greens on May 20, 2010.

With 8,292 members is Die Linke. North Rhine-Westphalia is the party's largest regional association (as of December 31, 2018).

At the state party conference in June 2018, Inge Höger was elected spokeswoman for the state executive with only 51% of the votes. Christian Leye, an employee of Sahra Wagenknecht , was re-elected as board spokesman with 72%. Sebastian Weiermann commented for New Germany that the party would have to expect “that it would be reduced to the subject of anti-Semitism from the left in many media ” if Höger remained in office beyond 2020.

Positions

Programmatically, the party has a clear focus on economic and social policy.

It stands for a form of economy that subordinates market mechanisms to social objectives and wants to transfer the area of ​​services of general interest, social infrastructure, the energy industry and the financial sector into public ownership. The left wants a welfare state that comprehensively covers life risks. An active labor market policy should create well-paid regular jobs.

In terms of social policy, Die Linke NRW would like to achieve a comprehensive democratization of all areas of life. It sees itself as a feminist party that wants to achieve gender equality through active politics. In foreign policy, Die Linke stands for the renunciation of military interventions of any kind, for disarmament and the dissolution of NATO .

She is resolutely against right-wing extremism.

The national association is considered radical within the party. The SWR broadcast Report Mainz pointed out shortly after the state elections in 2010 that seven of the eleven elected MPs were members of organizations “that are considered extremist”, such as the Socialist Left , the Anti-Capitalist Left and the Red Aid . However, the Socialist Left has not been classified as extremist by the NRW Constitutional Protection since 2014. In the program, an uncritical attitude towards the SED regime was pointed out, which was proven by interviews with candidates of the party.

Constitutional Protection Report of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

In its 2015 report on the state association, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia wrote: "The majority of the members of the DIE LINKE party and essential parts of the political demands are not to be viewed as extremist some of them even where there are either indications of left-wing extremist tendencies or at least justify suspicion. The Constitutional Protection of North Rhine-Westphalia therefore does not monitor DIE LINKE as a whole, but only the left-wing extremist or suspected left-wing extremist alliances within the party DIE LINKE: These are the »Anti-Capitalist Left (AKL)«, the Trotskyist network marx 21, the Communist Platform (KPF) and the Left Youth ['solid] .

MPs

There are currently twelve members of the Left from North Rhine-Westphalia in the Bundestag.

Since June 15, 2007 Die Linke had a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament when Rüdiger Sagel joined the parliamentary group . In the 2010 state election , Die Linke was able to send eleven members to the state parliament.

Almost everywhere, Die Linke was elected to the district assembly in the 2009 local elections. In the early state elections on May 13, 2012 , Die Linke clearly failed with 2.5 percent of the vote at the five percent hurdle and has not been since then until the non-attached MP Daniel Schwerd , who was formerly a member of the Pirate Party , crossed on March 8, 2016 represented in the state parliament. In the 2014 local elections, however, she was able to increase her result compared to 2009.

In the state elections in 2017 , the party failed with 4.9% just under the five percent hurdle and is therefore not represented in the 17th North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament.

Election results

Local elections

Election stand of the left in Lippstadt
Local elections 1994 October 16, 1994 0.0% 1
Local elections 1999 September 12, 1999 0.8% 1
Local elections 2004 September 26, 2004 1.4% 1
Local elections 2009 August 30, 2009 4.4%
Local elections 2014 June 25, 2014 4.7%

1 PDS

State elections

State election 2000 May 14, 2000 1.1% 1
State election 2005 May 22, 2005 0.9% 1 ; 2.2% 2
State election 2010 May 9, 2010 5.6%
State election 2012 May 13, 2012 2.5%
State election 2017 May 14, 2017 4.9%

1 PDS 2 WASG

Bundestag elections

Bundestag election 1990 0.3% 1
Bundestag election 1994 1.0% 1
Bundestag election 1998 1.2% 1
Bundestag election 2002 1.2% 1
Bundestag election 2005 5.2% 3
Bundestag election 2009 8.4%
Bundestag election 2013 6.1%
Bundestag election 2017 7.5%

1 PDS 3 Die Linkspartei.PDS

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ^ WDR ( Memento from November 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ wasg-nrw.de: State reserve list ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ The State Returning Officer North Rhine-Westphalia: Final result for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
  5. ^ Report on the first state party conference
  6. ↑ How red-red-green really failed Taz, May 21, 2010. Retrieved May 24, 2010.
  7. ↑ Personal report by Rüdiger Sagel, member of the LEFT exploratory commission. Retrieved June 3, 2010 .
  8. ↑ THE LEFT. Retrieved March 14, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Sebastian Weiermann: Closer is not possible , Neues Deutschland from June 25, 2018
  10. ↑ Sebastian Weiermann: Not a good choice , Neues Deutschland from June 25, 2018
  11. ^ Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia: Verfassungsschutzbericht 2014. (PDF) In: www.mik.nrw.de. Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on August 21, 2018 .
  12. ^ Report Mainz : Left MPs in North Rhine-Westphalia: "GDR was a legitimate attempt"
  13. ^ Constitutional Protection Report NRW 2015. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 31, 2017 ; accessed on June 2, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mik.nrw.de
  14. ↑ Contact to the MPs: DIE LINKE. North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved August 22, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Progress is the realization of utopias , on Daniel Schwerd's personal website, March 8, 2016
  16. ↑ Results of the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia 2017 , accessed on May 16, 2017 at wdr.de