Melanie Wery-Sims was part of the left for six years. Earlier this month, she left the party – citing the party’s handling of MeToo allegations as the reason for her decision in a Facebook post.
It shouldn’t be that a “special district chairman” describes Wery-Sim’s photos on Facebook as “wank templates”, another comrade as “disabled” and insults and threatens employees, according to the ex-left. Corresponding emails, which are available to the “Spiegel” magazine, are intended to show that the district chairman has repeatedly spoken disrespectfully towards the state chairman.
The left in Rhineland-Palatinate now wants to throw the comrade out of the party because of sexist insults. “Following an intensive exchange, the state board confirmed the execution of a party exclusion procedure against the district chairman of the Rhein-Hunsrück district and terminated future cooperation with him. These decisions were taken unanimously,” the party wrote on Facebook.
“The repeated behavior of the functionary of the party does not correspond to the self-image and the statutes of the party and also contradicts the code decided by the state executive board,” the left said.
Wery-Sims continues to be criticized on social networks from her ex-party, for example by Alexander Ulrich, member of the Bundestag. “Wery-Sims remembers that she approached our federal chairman several times and believed that she wanted to become federal treasurer. When the latter didn’t work, she has now resigned,” says Ulrich. It’s about “sometimes a bad night kicking against the party”.
Wery-Sims supports the decision of the state executive: “I’m glad that action is now being taken and at the same time I’m deeply saddened that so much had to happen first.” According to the ex-left, too little was done at the last party congress to deal with such cases to prevent in the future. It remains exciting “whether the elimination process will be successful. Because the statutes at the federal party conference were not tightened on this point, the arbitration commission does not have much room for maneuver,” Wery-Sims told the “Spiegel” magazine.
