As the campaign is coming to an end, after knowing an unexpected regeneration, thanks to a charismatic candidate and his preaching against the far -right.
Known for its chronic judgments and weakened by a recent split, the (left) seemed to be doomed to say goodbye to Bundestag (lower parliament) after Sunday’s parliamentary elections. But the polls show that the party, a distant heir to the Communist Party of the former East Germany, will easily surpass the 5%threshold. A poll even gives 9% to this party they considered “dying”.
The reason for his regeneration? The adoption, at the end of January, a resolution of the Christian Union for migration rules, with the votes of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), which broke the post -war “taboo” of the “traditional” parties with the far -right level. .
What is the charismatic Heidi Raynek
Heidi Raynek, the head of Die Linke’s parliamentary group, a politician unknown to the general public until recently, reacted from the House of Representatives, with a fiery speech that has garnered more than 6.5 million views on the Tiktok platform.
“I address people outside here: Don’t give up, fight, resist fascism in this country. On the barricades! ” said the 37 -year -old politician. And this speech has mobilized hundreds of thousands of Germans who went down the streets in recent weeks to protest against the far -right and the conservative attitude.
Raichinek, who comes from former East Germany but now lives in Osenabruk, northern Germany, joined Die Linke in 2015, “without long -term plans” but feeling only “thymus”, told the French Agency. He had worked in a center for unaccompanied minor refugees, then at young people’s help services and states that he witnessed social injustice and poverty in Europe’s largest economy.
After making her debut on the local political scene, Raichinek, who has hit Rosa Luxemburg’s tattoo on her right arm, was elected to Bundestag in 2021.
Its charisma operates, but the party as a whole covered a gap in the political arena, dealing with social issues such as the cost of living and the launch of rents, which were ignored by the rest, in an election campaign where the immigration dominated.
“We can win by focusing on such issues as well,” the party leader Yan Van Akn said today.
Poll
Die Linke made an “effective” campaign and set “clear priorities”, summoned by Professor of Political Science Antonios Souris of the Free University of Berlin.
The number of members of the party has reached the highest level of the last 15 years and in a poll among young people under the age of 18 is in the first place, with 20.8%.
A year ago, Die Linke went on, after the departure of his 55 -year -old Sarah Wagenknecht, who adopted a hard line in the migratory, incompatible with that of the party.
As the head of a new party of the “Conservative Left”, BSW, Wagenknecht has made a good start, garnering 6.2% in the June European elections and double -digit percentages in three regional elections, following its calls for Germany. But the BSW then faced internal conflicts and corruption claims. Wagenknecht’s de facto support in the resolution on the migration voted by the AfD was the drop that overflowed the glass.
A voter, 43 -year -old barber Thomas Marienfeld, said that although she voted for BSW in June, she now returned to Die Linke. Watching Raynek’s speech at Bundestag, “I was 100% agree, which never happened to Mrs. Wagenknecht or other parties, such as the SPD or the Greens. If people are leaning to the right, then it is my duty as a German to go left, “he said.
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