Dispute over membership: BSW members complain against the party headquarters!

The tensions within the Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) alliance increase! Two members from Hamburg, Norbert Weber and Dejan Lazić, have decided to go to court against the strict recording rules of their own federal board. Your concern: a reformed membership recording that is less restrictive. However, their applications were rejected by the BSW Federal Arbitration Court, which caused them to intervene the legal process. Lazić, a lawyer by profession, told the T-Online portal that the decision on the admission of new members should not be only in the hands of the federal executive-this was illegal.

The background of this argument are the existing rules for accession to the party. While other parties enable their interested parties to have uncomplicated membership, BSW candidates have to survive a talks and wait for the party board's consent in Berlin. According to the critics, this procedure is in contrast to an internal party democracy, since only the top of the party can make decisions. Professor Martin Morlok, a lawyer, has already signaled that judicial clarification about the compatibility of this practice with the internal party dynamics is necessary.

The next steps

Weber and Lazić, who have now founded the BSW district association Hamburg-Mitte/Nord, plan to launch the Hamburg State Association on December 15. They want to win new members without obtaining the approval of the Federal Association. This illustrates the deeper tensions and the challenges within the BSW, in the middle of its previous successes in the East elections in Thuringia, Brandenburg and Saxony. But now there is a threat of a legal argument that, in the worst case, could influence the structure of the party. The BSW itself remains calm in its defense and emphasizes that the regulations for membership are legally checked and are in accordance with the party law, as was stated by a spokeswoman for the German press agency.