Thuringia's Finance Minister Wolf names the priorities of Thuringia.Gerecht
After breaking with the BSW, the newly founded party Thüringen.Gerecht is committed to environmental protection, gender equality and direct membership.
Quick Look
- Thuringia's Finance Minister Katja Wolf explained the main focuses of the new party Thüringen.Gerecht.
- After the break with the BSW, the focus is now on environmental protection and gender equality in addition to tried and tested pillars.
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Why It Matters
After an ongoing dispute with the federal executive board and Sahra Wagenknecht, almost all members of the Thuringian BSW parliamentary group resigned from the party.
Thuringia's Finance Minister Katja Wolf has named points that should define her newly founded party Thüringen.Gerecht after the break with the BSW.
“What is even more important to us now is the question of environmental sustainability and nature conservation. And of course we will focus much more strongly on the question of gender equality than the BSW did," said Wolf in a Deutschlandfunk interview about the new party, which is about a month old.
“Especially when you come from the East and see how social cuts in special women's meetings, how this perspective of Eastern women is often completely ignored in Western politics, that is a point that we think is important,” she added.
At the same time, she admitted that she wanted to maintain the BSW's approaches. She referred to the BSW pillars of justice, economic reason, freedom of expression and the idea of peace. “That continues to shape us.”
Members desired
Wolf emphasized that, unlike the BSW, Thüringen.Gerecht also wanted to accept new members directly. “We’re really looking forward to becoming a members’ party. We are not an electoral association and we expressly do not want to repeat the mistake that the BSW made at the beginning. »
As a result of an ongoing dispute with the federal executive board and the founder of the BSW, Sahra Wagenknecht, Wolf and almost all members of the Thuringian BSW parliamentary group resigned from the party. At the beginning of September, a group led by Wolf founded a new party called Thüringen.Gerecht. The previous BSW faction dissolved.
Instead of the previous 15 BSW members, the new Thuringia.Gerecht parliamentary group only has ten members, with one member being non-party.
“turmoil and frustration”
In an interview with Deutschlandfunk, Wolf also remembers the day Thuringia.Gerecht was founded: “We founded the party really spontaneously. You don't have to believe it, but it's true. And those in the room who hadn't considered the idea before felt completely overwhelmed and there was actually turmoil and frustration because they had the feeling that they somehow hadn't been taken along."
The group actually met for a consultation that day. “And when the lawyers then said: Well, the legally safest thing to do would be to found a party now – because that’s possible spontaneously – we did that.”
Open Questions
- How strong will Thuringia.Gerecht perform in the coming elections?
