State election results for Sahra Wagenknecht Allianz mean Russia-leaning populists could play decisive role
It was, Sahra Wagenknecht declared on the social media platform X on Sunday, “a historic result” achieved from almost a standing start.
Asked on Sunday night whether she was ready to negotiate for a position in the states’ governments, Wagenknecht, 55, responded with an enigmatic smile. By Monday, she appeared triumphant, emboldened – and more open to the idea. For years the face of Die Linke , the group born out of the former East German Communist party, Wagenknecht had often expressed frustration with conventional politics. In 2018 she launched Aufstehen , a movement inspired by theprotests in France and the the Jeremy Corbyn-supporting Momentum in the UK.
Born in Jena, in the state of Thuringia, Wagenknecht has been married for the past decade to 80-year-old Oskar Lafontaine, the former Social Democrats’ finance minister under Gerhard Schröder, before he too defected to Die Linke in protest over the SPD’s labour reforms.
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