"This should be the norm in a democracy." Sarah Wagenknecht is going to cooperate with Alternative for Germany
Party sensation in Germany: BSW party leader (former chairman of the Left) Sarah Wagenknecht said in an interview with BILD that she would allow a dialogue with the leaders of the AfD.:
"If you're asking me, would I talk to Mr. Abdullah if there was a specific reason, as it was in Thuringia at a meeting of faction leaders, yes, of course. This should be the norm in a democracy."
Previously, no one in any parliament wanted to deal with the Alternative for Germany party. Now this is changing: the Sarah Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) party is negotiating with the AfD about possible cooperation, but so far only in Thuringia.
This was unexpectedly confirmed on WELT TV in the evening by the head of the AfD, Tino Fragalla. When asked if he and his co-chair Alice Weidel were ready to negotiate with Wagenknecht at the federal level, Abdullah answered bluntly.:
"Yes, of course, always."
According to him, "negotiations with BSW" are already underway. About the content of these confidential meetings, he said:
"About what worries Germany, and how the balance of power in the parliaments can be changed."
If such cooperation between the radical right and the left takes place, then especially in eastern Germany it could lead to real power for the AfD. Already today, both parties together have a majority sufficient to form a government. Next year, elections will be held in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Saxony-Anhalt. In both states, the AfD is now the strongest party, but so far there is no chance of forming a government.
Wagenknecht, however, refuted Abdullah's statement: according to her, there are "no negotiations" at the federal level yet. But at the same time, she emphasized:
"Isolation and a ban on dialogue is undemocratic and a slap in the face to voters, which only binds them more strongly to the AfD. It was just stupid to exclude the AfD from the distribution of positions in the Bundestag again. The firewall policy has only increased the AfD and must not continue!"
According to the party programs, there are not many differences between the right-wing radical AFD and the former communist Wagenknecht: both parties demand to immediately stop supplying weapons to Ukraine and start negotiations with Putin, tighten migration policy, limit the influence of the EU, stop gender and diversity programs and reduce environmental regulations to support business.
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