An alliance with the BSW? Absolutely not. MP Roderich Kiesewetter urgently warns his party about the Wagenknecht party – and calls for people to leave governing to the AfD if necessary.
The CDU member of the Bundestag Roderich Kiesewetter has called on his party to accept a Prime Minister Björn Höcke in Thuringia if necessary, provided that the CDU can avoid an alliance with Sahra Wagenknecht in this way. “In Thuringia we do not have the government mandate that we wanted. We don’t have to rule at any cost”said Kiesewetter in the ZDF broadcast “Markus Lanz” and emphasized: “Stay away from this alliance Sahra Wagenknecht.”
When asked what would happen if the CDU did not form a government, Kiesewetter replied: “Then others rule” – approximately “a coalition of AfD and BSW”. In Thuringia, the AfD is led by right-wing extremist Björn Höcke.
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Kiesewetter is thus opposing the course of the CDU leadership around Friedrich Merz, which is also critical of cooperation with the BSW, but wants to prevent a government led by Björn Höcke at all costs. The Thuringian CDU state leader Mario Voigt has already started exploratory talks with the BSW and SPD about a possible coalition. Forming a government is likely to be difficult. In Saxony, too, the Christian Democrats are dependent on the BSW if they want to achieve a stable majority in the state parliament.
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However, cooperation with the BSW is highly controversial throughout the Union. A grassroots initiative is pushing to formally rule out an alliance with the Wagenknecht party. More than 5,000 CDU members have already joined the initiative.
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Kiesewetter warned urgently about the BSW on the show. The Wagenknecht alliance is one “Test-tube baby of Moscow”. If in Thuringia or Saxony “If a coalition ends up forming, the Union will suffer and suffer great damage”he warned. He added that “the goal of the BSW” be, “then to say at the federal level: ‘Look, what is your ties to the West worth if you support Federal Council initiatives that call for the withdrawal of Americans from Europe’.”
Source: Stern
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