Executive Committee Meeting, June 3, 2017
Brief Information
Dear comrades, central to the meeting of the Party Executive Committee on Saturday were the motions for amendments of the draft election programme.
We debated on the altogether 1223 submitted motions until early Sunday morning. Through full or part adoptions we clearly could reduce the number of motions. The estimated number of motions to be decided by the congress is still quite ambitious, considering the tight schedule, but manageable. The voting folder will be printed and put online today as well as handed out to the delegates in Hanover.
The PEC furthermore adopted a resolution on the decision of the great coalition regarding the implementation of an Infrastructure Society which is supposed to manage federal highways. It is an extortive and undemocratic procedure to connect the vote in Federal Council on the financial compensation of the federal states with the vote on the privatization of highways, despite these issues have nothing to do with each other. DIE LINKE opposes the privatization of public property on federal and state level.
After talks with the party chairs and prime candidates I presented the PEC with the communication strategy for federal elections 2017.
In solidarity,
Matthias Höhn