The Left North Rhine-Westphalia
Rüdiger Sagel
Speaker:
Rüdiger Sagel
Deputy:
Cornelia Swillus ankle, Azad Tarhan, Hans Günter Bell
The Left North Rhine-Westphalia (own spelling: THE LINKE.NRW ) is the national association of the German Left Party in the state of North Rhine -Westphalia.
- 5.1 state elections
- 5.2 Bundestag elections
History
Prehistory
The WASG in North Rhine -Westphalia
The association WASG eV was founded on July 3, 2004, its national association in NRW on the country's general meeting on 17 October 2004 in Duisburg. The party establishment took place on 22 January 2005 for the federal party and on 26 January 2005 for the National Association in NRW. Spokesman Huseyin Aydin was.
The North Rhine- Westphalian Association received nationwide attention. Reason was the first participation of the WASG at a state election. A Land Conference elected on January 23, 2005 in Dusseldorf forty candidates for the reserve list with the Herner Social pastor Jürgen Klute as the leading candidate. In the state elections in North Rhine -Westphalia 2005 WASG immediately became the fifth largest party, but failed in 2.2 % of the votes to clear the five-percent hurdle. The party joined in this election still competitive at the later partner PDS.
On 25 / 26th March 2006 was the first national congress of the WASG place in Dortmund.
PDS in North Rhine -Westphalia
The PDS stepped up to the state elections in 2000 and 2005, scoring a profit of 1.1% and 0.9% respectively.
The Left in North Rhine -Westphalia
The Left Party was born 21 October 2007 by joining the WASG to Linkspartei.PDS North Rhine-Westphalia after they had cooperated nationwide already in the general election in 2005 under the name The Left Party. Many disillusioned former members of the SPD and the Greens were members of the Left. The majority of the members previously belonged to no other party to, a significant portion are workers, and poverty under Hartz IV sufferers.
2009, the party held its first meeting on to local and national elections in North Rhine -Westphalia. In May 2010, she succeeded in her first state election with 5.6 percent of votes the entry into the Düsseldorf parliament. The, after the elections in Hesse in 2008 and the Saarland in 2009, the third option left to participate in a West German state government failed after a first exploratory discussion with the SPD and the Greens on May 20, 2010.
With approximately 6,800 members, the North Rhine-Westphalian Association of the largest in West Germany and the third largest in total (as of November 2011).
Positions
Programmatically, the party has a strong focus in the economic and social policy.
It stands for a form of economy, market mechanisms broader objectives of society subordinates and wants to transfer the area of public services, social infrastructure, energy and the financial sector into public ownership. The Left wants a welfare state, which secures life risks comprehensively. An active labor market policy, well-paid regular jobs are to be created.
Of social policy, would the Left NRW achieve a comprehensive democratization of all spheres of life. She sees herself as a feminist party that wants to achieve gender equality through active policy. In foreign policy, the Left stands for a waiver of military intervention of any kind, for disarmament and dissolution of NATO.
She is working resolutely against right.
The national association is valid within the party as radical. The SWR - shipment Report Mainz had shortly after the state election in 2010 indicated that seven of the eleven elected representatives were members of organizations, " which are considered extremist", such as the Socialist Left, the Anti-Capitalist Left and the Red Aid. In the broadcast was made in particular to an uncritical attitude to the communist regime, which was confirmed by interviews with candidates of the party.
Verfassungsschutzbericht of North Rhine -Westphalia
The Constitutional Protection of North Rhine -Westphalia leads the National Association of the party under Parliament oriented left-wing extremism in his report for the year 2009. In it, he complains that the party lacked a clear and unequivocal commitment to democracy. It also calls into question "whether the party DIE LINKE is ideological, programmatic, personnel and moved with respect to their political action within the free democratic basic order. " Furthermore, he argues that the party is a " on the basis of Marxist- Leninist history and social theory to construct a new socialist order " propagating and not clearly dissociate from dictatorship in the GDR. In summary, the report says: ". Implementation of the system changing or - overcoming approaches in the positions of the Federal and the State party in its entirety is but without disregarding of at least some basic principles of a free democratic basic order hardly conceivable " Furthermore, criticized the constitutional protection that extremist mergers are an important part of the party and performs a variety of, applicable as extremist groupings.
Member of Parliament
Currently sitting eleven North-Rhine/Westphalian members of the Left in the Bundestag.
Since June 15, 2007, The Left by the fraction excretion of Rüdiger Sagel one member in the North Rhine- Westphalian state. In the state elections in 2010 could send the Left eleven deputies to the Diet:
Almost everywhere, the Left was elected in the 2009 municipal elections in the district assemblies. In the preferred state election 13 May 2012 failed The Left 2.5 percent of the vote clearly at the five-percent hurdle and is no longer represented in Parliament since then.
Election results
State elections
1 PDS 2 WASG
Bundestag elections
1 PDS 3 The Left Party