Citizens' Assembly | City councillors of the BSW join the Left Party in Rostock
Berlin. The chairman of the BSW parliamentary group in the Rostock city council, Toralf Herzer, is leaving his parliamentary group and intends to join the Left Party. As reported by "Spiegel," Herzer no longer agrees with the BSW's federal leadership's stance toward the AfD. He said he "doesn't want to be in a party that is a stooge for the AfD." Herzer, who was not politically active before joining the BSW, explained that he "discovered over the last year that my heart lies with the left and that I am convinced by The Left, especially here in the city with its citizen-oriented policies." He criticized the political culture within the BSW, saying that open discussions are barely possible.
Brigitte Dade, deputy parliamentary group leader, who previously belonged to the Left Party in the city council, also intends to switch from the BSW to the Left Party. According to media reports, she found the openness and clarity she desired for her work in the Left Party parliamentary group. As a result, the BSW will lose its parliamentary group status, with only three representatives; the Left Party will become the strongest force in the city parliament with ten representatives.
According to a report in the "Nordkurier," the Rostock Left Party warmly welcomes the two local politicians to our parliamentary group; they intend to discuss their involvement in the parliamentary group's work. In a new state election poll for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the co-governing Left Party is polling at 15 percent (around 5 percent at the end of 2024), while the BWS is polling at 6 percent (around 15 percent at the end of December).
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