Big surprise at BSW: Zaklin Nastic should be Hamburg’s top candidate for the federal election. Now she is withdrawing completely. The reasons seem doubtful.
The Hamburg BSW member of the Bundestag and designated top candidate Zaklin Nastic is surprisingly leaving politics. Instead, she supported another candidacy, her party announced on Friday.
“After years of intensive political work, I would like to take time to recover from the efforts and gain new strength,” Nastic is quoted as saying in a press release distributed by the BSW.
The background to the withdrawal was unclear: Party circles said that the announcement had not been coordinated with the 44-year-old from Hamburg. The mood in the regional association in Hamburg was also boiling: according to t-online information, several members were said to have known nothing about Nastic’s withdrawal.
Eulenburg, who is also co-chairman of the newly founded Hamburg BSW regional association, said: “I am grateful to have Zaklin at my side and am pleased that she supports me in working towards our common goals with passion, competence and great experience want to support.” The party needs the political expertise of the current members of the Bundestag. Nastic helped set up the BSW in Hamburg with “tireless commitment,” emphasized Eulenburg.
Meanwhile, the Hamburger Abendblatt reports that Nastic’s quotes from the BSW press release were not agreed upon with the sacked top candidate. “The content of the text was correct,” Eulenburg apparently told the Abendblatt. However, the text was not presented to Nastic in that form. Nastic has apparently now confirmed this to the Berliner Zeitung.
Most recently, the BSW in Hamburg made headlines with the so-called “rebels”: Dejan Lazic and Norbert Weber had founded a second regional association and had previously criticized the power of the party executive. As a consequence, the board took action and initiated an expulsion process from the party. Read more about this here.
There is a rumor in the Hamburg regional association of the BSW that Nastic was looking for someone responsible for the chaos – and now had to go as a pawn.