Once written off as a party in terminal decline, Die Linke is defying expectations with a youth-driven resurgence.
They still have to change their naive stance towards Russia, but other than that, they are simply the best choice for anyone who’s not old and/or rich.
“They only have to change their attitude to our main geopolitical rival who is engaged in a war of aggression an few miles from our border” is quite a lift.
Very “other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play”.
If your attitude is in support or defense of Russia, yes you need to change it.
Luckily many have left over the years to make their own pro-Russian spin-off parties leaving their influence over Die Linke reduced.
Think of it as removing the tankies.
Meanwhile the main right/far right party that claims to want to oppose Russia (which does not align with their policies of the past two decades and mainly seems to have been opposition talk) are working hard to normalize possible coalitions with the Putin funded AfD fascists.
The “Liberal” FDP is trying to crawl up the butt of Musk and was already reluctant to help Ukraine since the beginning, later changing their stance only to use Ukraine funds as a reason to cut climate investments and social programs.
The SPD, who has chancellor Scholz, has been reluctant to send Taurus missiles, and ran their campaign for the EU 2024 elections on “Peace” w.o. clear stances as to how they want to reach it.
Meanwhile the Left party has been talking about lackluster sanctions on Russias “shadow fleet” used to circumvent oil sanctions and sell back oil products to the EU at inflated prices, which the EU only addressed now that Trump wants to steal all ressources from Ukraine in “exchange” for Russia getting the rest of Ukraine.
The only party that is currently in parliament and wanted to provide Ukraine properly with weapons is the Green party, however also compromising on stricter sanctions against Russia while being in the now defunct government with SPD and FDP.
Problem is giving Russia money to buy weapons and giving Ukraine weapons does not change the tide. It just causes more deaths. The Left party is opposed to sending weapons directly, but wants harder sanctions against Russia, while pushing harder for diplomacy.
So in terms of the tide for Ukraine it isn’t fundamentally different between Greens and Left, but the same front lines would come with less deaths. Problem of the Green party is that until Trumps second victory they were all the way up the US butt in terms of foreign policy, which is part of the problems the EU faces now that Trump tosses the EU aside.
They did. The putin friends have left with Wagenknecht and moved to the BSW. The current Left hates Putin.
Sadly, no. The party’s policies regarding Ukraine and the defence of Germany and our allies have not significantly changed since Wagenknecht left. I was really hoping they would, but nope.
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This party will never have a majority tho so even if they were neutral on the russia ukraine issue, they would be outvoted by the rest of the parties. The important things where they can make a difference are internal social issues (public funding, migration, etc) where the rest of the parties are already split and the left can tip it in the right direction.
Tot 5% of the vote. If only the constituency wasn’t on average 100 years old.
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