The Left Saarland

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The Left Saarland
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Chairman Thomas Lutze
Deputy Andrea Neumann
Barbara Spaniol
Michael Bleines
Treasurer Ewa Tröger
Manager Vera Geissinger
Establishment date October 13, 2007
Headquarters Talstrasse 23
66119 Saarbrücken
Landtag mandates
6/51
Number of members 2,395 (as of December 31, 2016)
Website www.dielinkesaar.de

Die Linke Saarland (own spellings DIE LINKE. Saar and DIE LINKE. Landesverband Saarland ) is the regional association of the party Die Linke in Saarland . According to its own information, the Left in Saarland had 2,395 members on December 31, 2016.

history

prehistory

After the SED was renamed PDS , the PDS tried to establish itself in West Germany as well. The state association of the PDS in Saarland was founded in 1994.

For the 2005 election , the PDS renamed as part of the planned merger with the WASG in Linkspartei.PDS and opened their list of WASG members.

Since the merger

The Left Party was formed on October 13, 2007 as a merger of the regional associations of the PDS and the WASG.

In the state elections in Saarland in 2009 , the state association achieved 21.3 percent and received 11 seats in the state parliament. In the state elections in Saarland in 2012 , the state association achieved 16.1 percent. and received 9 seats in the state parliament. In the state elections in Saarland in 2017 , the state association achieved 12.9 percent and received 7 seats in the state parliament.

Organization and structure

Spatial structures

The state association Saarland is a division of the federal party Die Linke and is in turn divided into the six district associations Saarbrücken, Saarlouis, Merzig-Wadern, Sankt Wendel, Neunkirchen and Saarpfalz, whose area corresponds to that of the 5 Saarland districts or the Saarbrücken regional association.

In addition, there are so-called local associations, which, however, are not partitions of the party in the actual sense, but voluntary associations within the district associations.

Content structures

Most of the content-related work is done by the (currently 23) state working groups. These each deal with a defined topic. You maintain a more or less intensive connection with the relevant federal working group.

The regional associations of the thematic currents Socialist Left (SL) , Communist Platform (KPF) and Forum Democratic Socialism (fds) are also organized as regional working groups .

Organizational structures

Organs of the regional association are:

  • the state party congress as the highest body that, for example, decides on the party program and statutes and elects the state board. It meets at least once a year.
  • the state committee as the highest body between two party congresses, which decides on the annual financial plan and controls the state board. It meets at least twice a year.
  • the state executive, which conducts day-to-day business, represents the party externally and prepares daily political statements
  • the state finance council, which is composed of the state and treasure masters

In addition, there is the regional arbitration commission as an intra-party arbitration tribunal.

Premises

Linke Saarland operates its state office at Talstrasse 23 in Saarbrücken, which serves as a place of work for the state manager and accounting department and is used as a conference venue by numerous party branches.

In addition, the member of the Bundestag Thomas Lutze runs two citizens' offices in Saarbrücken and Neunkirchen.

people

State chairman

Member of the state parliament

In the state parliament of the 14th electoral term (2009-2012) the left was represented by 11 members, in the state parliament of the 15th electoral period (2012-2017) with 8 members and in the state parliament of the 16th electoral period (since 2017) with 7 members:

Saarland member of the Left in the Bundestag

The Saarland regional association of the left is currently represented by one member in the German Bundestag :

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b number of members. Retrieved February 14, 2016 .
  2. ↑ dielinkesaar.de
  3. ↑ dielinkesaar.de
  4. ↑ dielinke-saar.de
  5. ↑ dielinkesaar.de
  6. ↑ dielinkesaar.de
  7. ↑ Thomas Lutze: DIE LINKE remains the social and peace-political alternative in the Bundestag. 2018, p. 2.
  8. ↑ Linkenkef in Saarland resigns (new Germany). In: New Germany . February 26, 2018, accessed October 25, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Thomas Lutze new head of the Saar Left. In: welt.de . September 29, 2019. Retrieved October 25, 2019 .