The dispute in Thuringia BSW about the government coalition there with the CDU and SPD continues to deepen. Around 80 members of the new so-called Basic Values Action Group BSW In a statement, Thuringia accused its own state executive board of lacking self-criticism. The letter is available to the dpa news agency.
They refer to statements by state chairman Gernot Süßmuth. The politician defends the work in the so-called blackberry coalition in Erfurt and blames conflicts in the BSW for poor survey results. The background is the ongoing criticism from Party founder Sahra Wagenknecht on the state board led by Süßmuth and his co-chairwoman Katja Wolf. Wagenknecht accuses them of using BSW positions in government work Thuringia to water it down and make too many compromises.
According to the undersigned, the course in Thuringia does not correspond to the BSW founding claim
This line is also taken by the approximately 80 supporters of the declaration. Süßmuth’s portrayal is “not shared by numerous members and supporters,” the letter says. For many members, the course in Thuringia no longer corresponds to the founding claim of the BSW: “The cooperation with the CDU and SPD may be justified in parliamentary terms, but it is clearly in tension with the principles of the BSW, which came into office to break with this policy.”
Anyone who calls for unity must first explain “on what basis this unity should stand,” it goes on to say. Unity without a “defined value orientation is empty”. The undersigned complain about weak survey results from the BSW in Thuringia.
Most recently there was also in Brandenburg regional associationwhere the BSW with the SPD ruled, dispute; also in various other state associations, including Saxony-Anhalt, Bavaria and Hamburg.
