Background: Sahra Wagenknecht is a former communist and technically a Left Party politician, married to former SPD leader Oskar Lafontaine. She drifted from her ML views towards the Danish form of social democracy with controls on immigration due to the view that it lowers the quality of life of the local working class. Her other infamous policy is staunch opposition to what she calls "lifestyle-left"; the usual class reductionist and "LGBT is bourgeois decadence" kind of view. The Left Party has been on the verge of a split between the radlib party leadership and her supporters for over a year now.

Good news:

  • Taking away votes from the AfD, which is hardcore fash in the region (as compared to the other state branches).

  • The most probably desired coalition from them is gonna be a government with the Left Party and the socdems.

Bad news:

  • The Left party and the socdems would 100% say no

  • The other obvious choice for Wagenknecht's bozos is a coalition with the fash

  • 47% for openly nationalist forces

  • This poll is very likely to embolden Wagenknecht and her bozos to actually go ahead and split the party: The Left Party would fall under full control of the radlib leadership and adopt pro-NATO, anti-communist, social democratic views and make itself a SPD 2. The Wagenknecht Party - reactionary and welcoming to chuds, conspiracy theorists, supporters of German Nationalism, etc. The left wing opposition (various trot groups, the Communist Platform, the miscellaneous anti-reformists of the AKL, etc.) is likely to be completely pushed out by both parties.

Unknown effect:

  • Wagenknecht is openly against economic warfare against Russia. Many of her supporters, I presume, are even more supportive of that country.
  • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    German electoral politics are an inexhaustible source of existential dread and other miscellaneous forms of terror

  • 7bicycles [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Wagenknecht is a figurehead for the strasserist and nazbol morons that populate most of this country who are too scared to admit to any such tendency because it's indecent. We "know" nazis are bad, not so much as to why, which arrives you at this.

    The party doesn't exist, this is a poll for how many people there are that want AfD politics without the neoliberalism and surprise, it's a lot

  • captcha [any]
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    1 year ago

    When did Die Linke overtake the SPD?

    • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      That's a regional fluke - since this is a state election poll instead of federal. Unfortunately, the Thüringen LINKE is by far the most lib.