On the initiative of Caren Lay, the executive committee of the Left Party then distanced itself in a motion entitled "Clear Edge against Third Position" in which it "unequivocally dissociated itself from the activities of right-wing populists, nationalists, conspiracy theorists and anti-Semites who want to make right-wing populist patterns of explaining the world and 'transverse front' strategies socially acceptable", and expressed its solidarity with Klaus Lederer.