On 3 November 2008, Everts declared, together with fellow MPs Silke Tesch, Jürgen Walter and Dagmar Metzger, that she would not support Andrea Ypsilanti as Prime Minister of Hesse, in a planned election.
Everts stated her decision was based on her aversion to the party Die Linke, which she said has "extremist" elements.
She has criticized the party Die Linke of having a "divided, negative attitude towards democracy and the rule of law".
[3] Without the support of her parliamentary group, Ypsilanti gave up her bid to become Prime Minister, leading to new elections in 2009.
She returned to her job as a scientific adviser to the SPD parliamentary group, before she was appointed as head of department at the Hessian State Agency for Civic Education in 2009.