Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) – Hessen’s Left Party wants to discuss the question of the top candidate for the 2023 state elections at the beginning of 2023. On March 4, 2023, the program for the state elections should be decided at a party conference in Wetzlar, a party spokesman said when asked by the dpa. The draft is currently up for discussion in the district associations. The list party conference is planned for April 22, 2023.
In the state election campaign, the party wants to score points as a “vote for social redistribution,” said state chairmen Christiane Böhm and Jakob Migenda. “Now people need a noticeable relief in the face of historically high inflation and growing energy poverty.” Affordable apartments with a Hessian rent cap and free public transport are also needed.
In the election campaign, the left will make proposals against poverty and for a turnaround in energy and transport. The money for such measures must “be obtained from the super-rich, through a wealth levy and higher inheritance taxes, from the energy companies through the excess profit tax,” explained the party leaders.
“We have to manage to make it clear how important a left-wing voice is in the state parliament.” For example, tuition fees in Hesse could only have been abolished with the initiative of the Left Party. “The state government needs pressure from the left, then it is also possible to achieve at least minor relief for the people,” explained Böhm and Migenda.
