In the state election campaign, the Left Party in Saxony sees the CDU as its main opponent. Saxony is poorly governed, said party leader Stefan Hartmann on Tuesday in Dresden ahead of the state party conference next weekend. "We are clearly focusing our criticism on the CDU." In the government under Minister-President Michael Kretschmer, the CDU is clearly the brake pad that is preventing the agreements secured in the coalition agreement from becoming reality. As examples, Hartmann cited the failed reform of the Saxon constitution, for which the necessary two-thirds majority in the state parliament could not be achieved despite the promised votes of the Left Party, and a new public procurement law, which is intended to tie the awarding of public contracts to innovation as well as social and ecological sustainability and cannot be implemented in the current legislative period despite the coalition agreement.
In terms of content, the Left Party wants to score points with voters on social issues. "Our unique selling point is that we are the social corrective in the state parliament, and we want to remain so," said co-chair Susanne Schaper. The focus is on free lunches for all children in nurseries and schools, maintaining hospitals and improving medical care structures as well as implementing the Public Procurement Act.
On Saturday, the Left Party plans to adopt its election manifesto for the state elections on 1 September at a state party conference in Bautzen. In addition, the state representatives' meeting on Saturday and Sunday will vote on the state list of candidates running in the election. In the last state election in 2019, the party received 10.4 percent of the second votes. According to the latest polls, the party is in danger of being re-elected to parliament. However, the party has also seen a positive trend in membership, with 6097 members according to its own figures.
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