Separation of office and mandate: BSW Landeschefs take part in Thuringian power struggle

The two Thuringian BSW leaders are also ministers and deputies. Too many offices, say some in the party. A struggle for top positions threatens. Now BSW leaders from neighboring countries position themselves.

This is going to be extremely exciting: after the narrow failure of the Bundestag election, BSW leader Sahra Wagenknecht starts an open power struggle in her own party. In the cross-hairs of her displeasure, the former head of the state Katja Wolf and her co-chairman Steffen Schütz are standing. She is "astonished at the new candidacy of the two for the state presidency," said Wagenknecht to the STERN. "I had assumed that it was a long time ago …