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After 26 years at the SPD, Dortmund MP Marco Bülow resigned from his party. He would retain his directly elected parliamentary mandate, said the 47-year-old MP, who has represented the Dortmund I constituency in Parliament since 2002. In a partially emotional ("It makes me angry") appearance in front of the press, Opponents of the grand coalition have declared themselves above all disappointed by the party renewal process, which he described as complete failure. The question of whether he would now move to the left party did not want to answer Bülow. "On the other another time," he says only.
Party leader Andrea Nahles Bülow continued her case against the court: "The renewal of the SPD has degenerated, it was not an absolute promise". The deputy had made a name for years as a left-wing critic of his party and had denied his group, often made up of supporters, to the Bundestag. Now, he said: "I was, I am and I remain a devoted social democrat, although, like many others, outside the Party.
He had made his decision "after careful consideration, without malice, but with sadness," said the ex-journalist. The decisive factor was that after the disastrous results of the legislative elections in Bavaria and Hesse of the SPD, no reaction had come – neither from the top nor from the base. After this "no learning effect", he lost the last hope.
He had no chance in the end, criticized Bülow
Bülow criticized the substantial and structural deficits of his ex-party. Thus, the SPD has overcome neoliberalism and is doing too little to fight poverty and social inequality. The party had degenerated into a "career club". Diversity within the party is no longer at the rendezvous, critics of the current course would be put off. The MP recalled that he had founded in March the Progressive Non-Partisan Social Platform (PRO). With this alliance left, he wanted to renew the SPD and develop concepts against social inequalities. "Unfortunately, it did not work," he summed up now.
Another reason to leave Bülow was the failure of his own efforts. He had "finally no chance to move anything". In fact, he was in his last split as a loner, who had only had a few colleagues from the left SPD.
"There was a lot of sadness," said Bülow about the reaction of his constituency conference to the decision. In Berlin, the answers are not so clear. "There are also people who are happy," he said – and adding suggestively: "Maybe they're too happy too."
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