Berlin: The Left could apparently demand Emde waive its mandate

Berlin. According to a “Tagesspiegel” report, the party leadership of the Berlin Left now wants to increase the pressure on MP Vanessa Emde, who is controversial because of her positions on the Middle East conflict. The newspaper reports that the state executive board wants to ask the MP to give up her mandate at its meeting in the early evening. This was not confirmed to the German Press Agency by party circles. Rather, it was pointed out that one could not anticipate possible outcomes of the meeting.

According to “Tagesspiegel”, Emde is accused of violating the so-called elected representative agreement. With this agreement, all left-wing candidates committed themselves before the election to the Berlin House of Representatives to adhere to the party's decisions and program.

The left-wing politician Gregor Gysi is in favor of expelling the controversial Berlin MP Vanessa Emde from the left-wing faction. “I hope that we exclude them,” said the party veteran about his Berlin colleague in the journalist Paul Ronzheimer’s podcast.

Emde was newly elected to the state parliament on September 20th. With a first vote of 46.2 percent, she won a direct mandate in her constituency in Neukölln. The left-wing politician has long been criticized for statements about the Middle East conflict. Among other things, she is accused of casting doubt on Israel's right to exist.