Today, the German Left Party elected two women as co-chairs who will lead the party for the parliamentary elections this fall.
At the party conference held today, Janine Wissler and Susanne Hennig-Wellsow were elected party co-chairs.
Whistler is the leader of the parliamentary group in the provincial parliament of the state of Hesse.
Hennig Velsov is the head of the party in Thuringia, the only province where the Left leads the government.
They succeed Katja Kipping and Bernd Riksinger, who were at the head of the party since 2012.
The left, which is partly rooted in the former Socialist Unity Party (SED), the ruling party of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), won 9,2 percent of the vote in the 2017 parliamentary elections.
According to current polls ahead of the September 26 election, her support is between seven and eight percent.
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