Ex-BSW founders found new party Thuringia.Gerecht with Katja Wolf at the helm

The BSW state parliamentary group and the party leadership in Thuringia have collapsed. Now ex-BSW members are founding a new party with Finance Minister Wolf at the helm. There is talk of a spontaneous founding.

Former members of the BSW in Thuringia have founded a new party. (Archive image) Photo: Jacob Schröter/dpa

Erfurt. Two days after leaving the BSW in Thuringia, ex-members founded the new party Thüringen.Gerecht. The former BSW regional head and finance minister Katja Wolf was elected chairwoman, as founding members announced in Erfurt. The founding on Sunday even came as a surprise to members of the previous management team. “There was a spontaneous founding of the party,” it was said.

Wolf had explained at the weekend: "We have to set up a company as quickly as possible. According to the deadlines, we should be able to do it in October." The fact that the new organization was founded on Sunday is said to be a reaction to the uncertain legal status of the BSW faction, in which only two of twelve members belong to the Wagenknecht party.

The AfD parliamentary group has already demanded that the BSW parliamentary group's funding be cut off, citing the state constitution. In addition, a regular state parliament meeting is planned from Wednesday to Friday, at which the question of the status of the BSW parliamentary group would also arise.

According to a spokesman for the founding members, Infrastructure Minister Steffen Schütz was elected as one of Wolf's deputies - Schütz also left the BSW on Friday.

"We promised to ensure stability and reliability in Thuringia. Now we invite everyone to put this promise into practice together with us," explained Wolf, according to a statement.

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