Arbeit & soziale Gerechtigkeit – Die Wahlalternative (WASG)


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Name (English): Arbeit & soziale Gerechtigkeit – Die Wahlalternative (WASG)
Short name: Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative
Short Description: "Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative (German: Arbeit und soziale Gerechtigkeit – Die Wahlalternative, WASG) was a left-wing German political party founded in 2005 by activists disenchanted with the ruling Red-Green coalition government. On 16 June 2007 WASG merged with The Left Party.PDS to form The Left (Die Linke). At the time of its merger with The Left Party.PDS, WASG party membership stood at about 11,600 members.

The party ran for the first time in the 2005 state election of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany´s most populous state and a stronghold of the governing Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), with pastor Jürgen Klute as its front-runner. The party campaigned against what it considered "the neoliberal consensus" displayed by the governing centre-left political parties and the centre-right opposition alike. Some of its main issues were opposition to cuts in provision of social benefits and to the favourable taxation of the wealthy. In the first few months of existence, it received a large amount of news coverage, and had its first national convention from 6 May until 8 May 2005." - (en.wikipedia.org 13.03.2020)
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[Last update: 2020/03/13]