Former Bundestag Member Stefan Liebich to head Rosa Luxemburg Foundation office in New York

The former left-wing member of the Bundestag Stefan Liebich takes over in March 2024 Head of the office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in New York – a good six months before the presidential election in the USA. “The Republican Party in the US only recognizes election results and an independent judiciary when it benefits them,” Liebich told Table.Media. “This Trumpization puts democracy in existential danger.”

After three legislative periods, Liebich did not stand as a directly elected member of parliament in the federal elections in September 2021. He was repeatedly offended within the Left Party with his pro-Western positions – partly because of his membership in the transatlantic Atlantic Bridge. “I want to inform from New York and with that help our country end its false neutrality and take a stand“So Liebich. “The majority of US Democrats want to end the country’s shift to the right with a policy that delivers for ordinary people again. The outcome of this struggle also has consequences for Germany.”

Born in Wismar in 1972, Liebich was chairman of the left-wing parliamentary group in the Foreign Affairs Committee for many years; However, he never enjoyed the support of Working Group IV of the Bundestag faction, which was responsible for foreign policy. This is supported by the autocratic, anti-Western wing around the spokeswoman for disarmament policy, Sevim Dagdelenthe defense policy spokesman, Ali Al-Dailamiand the spokesman for European politics, Andrej Hunko, dominates. Together they have brought the parliamentary group on a Russia-friendly foreign policy course in recent years; also Proximity to the authoritarian regimes in China and Venezuela is part of the political DNA of the SED successor party.

Liebich could deal with his Counter course to the regressive authoritarian forces not enforce; also his foreign policy perhaps most important ally remaining in the parliamentary group, the Parliamentary Secretary John Korte, has announced that he will no longer stand as a candidate for the Bundestag in 2025. Liebich succeeded for the first time in 2009 the Berlin-Pankow constituency against the then President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Thierse to be won by the SPD. In 2013 and 2017 he also moved into the Bundestag with a direct mandate. From 1995 to 2009 Liebich was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives.