Sahra Wagenknecht, the uncompromising muse of the far left, who loves Putin and hates migrants, is revolutionizing the German political landscape. In the regional elections in the former GDR, she made a splash in Saxony and Thuringia. She is preparing to repeat the feat in Brandenburg in the elections on September 22.
In the European elections, his party, created only five months earlier, won 6.2% of the votes. On 1is In September, in the regional elections in the former GDR, it obtained 11.8% in Saxony and 15.8% in Thuringia, more than the three parties in the ruling coalition in Berlin, the Social Democrats, the Greens and the Liberals, together obtained 10.4%. In the regional elections in Brandenburg, another far-eastern state, scheduled for September 22, it is credited with 16 to 18% of voting intentions.
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Who is Sahra Wagenknecht, head of BSW (for Bündnis (alliance) Sahra Wagenknecht), the first party in modern Germany to be named after its founder? A muse of the far left, the fifty-year-old entered politics in 1989. A long-time zealot of communist Germany, today a loudmouth anti-migrant, pro-Russian and pro-peace, she excels at provoking and polarizing. Wagenknecht is a real UFO on the political chessboard across the Rhine.
When she was a child, her classmates called her “the Chinese girl” because her black hair and fiery eyes, inherited from an Iranian father who opposed the Shah and died when she was two years old, stood out in her native Jena, in the very eastern GDR. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, she joined the SED – the pro-Soviet single party – when everyone else was leaving it, and who proclaimed “The wall was a necessary evil”is nicknamed “the Non-Machine”. Then, in the 2000s, when she climbed the ranks of the far-left party the Leftshe becomes for the magazine Spiegel “the Madonna of neocommunism.”
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