Ramelow criticizes Wagenknecht for influencing state governments

Thuringia's managing Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (Left Party) has criticized the BSW for the influence of party leader Sahra Wagenknecht on the formation of state governments in Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia. "This is the self-dramatization of a party that is only tailored to its namesake and whose state associations are probably just staffage," he told the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND). Wagenknecht was a member of the Left Party for many years.

Ramelow accused Wagenknecht of having created hurdles with her demands, which did not relate to state politics, "which cannot be fulfilled by state governments in a federal state". This was a "visible expression of centralist ways of thinking and acting and of the vassalage demanded within the BSW".

Wagenknecht had made it clear that she wanted to continue to have a personal say in all three states and that she stood by her foreign policy demands on war and peace and on the deployment of US medium-range missiles.