State election: Thuringia: Schirdewan does not rule out a coalition with BSW

State election: Thuringia: Schirdewan does not rule out a coalition with BSW

Stable majorities are difficult to find in Thuringia. Forming a government could also be complicated after the state elections. The left is open to unusual alliances.

Left leader Martin Schirdewan does not rule out a coalition between his party and the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance or the CDU in Thuringia. “All democratic forces must at least be able to talk to each other, especially when it comes to preventing the rise of the new fascism and sending a clear democratic signal,” Schirdewan told the “Rheinische Post”.

The former left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht and her colleagues founded the BSW party in January, which caused the left-wing faction in the Bundestag to break up and is now only represented there as a group. The BSW wants to run in the European elections in June as well as in the state elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg.

The political situation in Thuringia has been considered extremely complex for years. In the federal state with a population of 2.1 million, Germany’s only left-wing Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow leads a minority government made up of the Left, the SPD and the Greens – without a permanent tolerating partner, which is a novelty in Germany.

Ramelow will run again in the state elections on September 1st. However, according to recent surveys, it could again be difficult to form a government. Accordingly, the AfD recently lost support in the most recent two surveys, but was still in first place with values ​​between 29 and 31 percent, followed by the CDU with 20 to 21 percent. Ramelow’s left was between 16 and 18 percent, the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance was at 13 to 15 percent. According to the surveys, the FDP would be kicked out of the state parliament, the Greens are at five percent and the SPD at values ​​between six and nine percent.

Source: Stern

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