(ANSA-AFP) - BERLIN, OCT 23 - A charismatic leader of
Germany's populist left wing on Monday laid the foundation for a
new party, expected to poach support from the resurgent far
right and further splinter the political landscape.
Sahra Wagenknecht, a firebrand MP from far-left Die Linke
party and a stalwart of opposition politics since the fall of
the Berlin Wall, said she was starting a new political
association named after herself. The Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht
(BSW), which includes nine other deputies, would be leaving the
Linke to focus on forming its own party by early next year, she
told reporters. "The way things are going can't continue,"
Wagenknecht, 54, told a packed news conference. (ANSA-AFP).
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