Ex-Left Party Members Remain in Berlin Caucus After Antisemitism Debate
Five former members of the Left Party will continue in the Berlin parliamentary group despite leaving the party over antisemitism policy disagreements.
- Five Berlin parliament members, including Klaus Lederer and Elke Breitenbach, will stay in the Left Party's caucus after resigning from the party.
- The resignations followed a contentious debate on antisemitism at the Left Party's Berlin state conference in October.
- The party's state board had urged the five members to relinquish their parliamentary mandates, which they refused.
- Caucus leaders Anne Helm and Tobias Schulze acknowledged the members' commitment to work based on the party's election platform.
- National party leaders Ines Schwerdtner and Jan van Aken supported keeping the members in the caucus to avoid further internal conflict.
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