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Dispute over Putin – Ex-Bundestag Bockhahn leaves the Left Party

The social senator of the Hanseatic city of Rostock, Steffen Bockhahn, is leaving his party, Die Linke, after 27 years.

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Dispute over Putin – Ex-Bundestag Bockhahn leaves the Left Party

The social senator of the Hanseatic city of Rostock, Steffen Bockhahn, is leaving his party, Die Linke, after 27 years. One of the reasons he gave on Wednesday was his party's attitude towards Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine.

The left does not manage to name and ostracize “the fascist dictator Putin” as such, the 44-year-old wrote on his website. "She does not succeed in making him the perpetrator and in denouncing the war crimes in Ukraine for which he is responsible." The NDR was the first to report the resignation.

The party does not even manage to denounce Putin for the more than 200,000 Russian soldiers killed. “Putin is a mass murderer, not only of other peoples but even of his own. What is so difficult about naming it and clearly defining oneself?” asked Bockhahn in his statement entitled “It's over after more than 27 years”.

It also says there that Bockhahn, who claims to have joined the party at the age of 16, no longer felt at home in his party's social and security policies.

Born in Rostock, he was a directly elected member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2013. From 2009 to 2012 he was state chairman of the left in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and from 2004 to 2014 a member of the left parliamentary group in the Rostock citizenship, where he also held the office of parliamentary group leader.

In 2019 he also ran for mayor in Rostock, but was defeated in a run-off election by the independent Claus Ruhe Madsen.

In the Left Party there was also an open conflict about the "Peace Manifesto" of the party left Sahra Wagenknecht and their call for demonstrations for the coming Saturday. Federal Managing Director Tobias Bank officially distanced himself on Monday. "After intensive consultation, we as the party executive did not adopt this call as our own," he said in Berlin.

He justified this, among other things, with a lack of demarcation of the call and its initiators to the extreme right, from whose ranks the rally planned in Berlin will be advertised massively.

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