Polls suggest the party of the ‘populist left-wing conservative’ could change the course of the next general election
Sahra Wagenknecht, the ‘populist left-wing conservative’ capturing angry feelings in GermanyClearly enjoying the home crowd, the politician first elected to parliament in 1991 is simultaneously a political veteran and a debutante.
If the decade-old far-right Alternative for Germany has put the cat among the political pigeons, with 30 per cent support and more in eastern Germany, the BSW is a dog chasing the cat – and the pigeons. So too Wagenknecht, who intersperses a long litany of Germany’s failings with emotive interjections: “crazy”, “outrageous”, “insane”, “fury”.
In the current six-year funding term to 2027, Thuringia has secured more than €2 billion in EU support. Wise investment is visible in Rudolstadt and other towns and cities but nothing, it seems, can halt the decline of Thuringia’s many rural towns and villages. With vague sources of financing and few members, the BSW remains a black box operated by Wagenknecht and her husband, the ex-Social Democrat Oskar Lafontaine.
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