Coalition building
BSW leadership sets conditions for the formation of a government in Erfurt
The BSW leadership criticizes the actions of the regional association in Thuringia when forming a government there. Now a board decision is putting pressure on Erfurt.
The BSW leadership around Sahra Wagenknecht has formulated conditions for the formation of a government in Thuringia. In a resolution published on the party’s homepage, the federal executive board calls on the Thuringian BSW regional association to specify foreign policy positions in the coalition negotiations with the CDU and SPD. If this doesn’t work, they say they should go into opposition.
Party officials had previously criticized the formulations on war, peace and the Russian attack against Ukraine, which the Thuringian BSW chairwoman Katja Wolf and her co-chairman Steffen Schütz agreed with the CDU and SPD in Erfurt. Wagenknecht himself described the Thuringian compromise paper, which records the parties’ different positions on the issue, as a mistake.
Wagenknecht skeptical about coalition negotiations in Thuringia
In the “Stern” Wagenknecht renewed her criticism and was skeptical “that there will be a good result at the end of the coalition negotiations.” In the exploratory talks with the SPD in Brandenburg, a good compromise was reached on the question of war and peace. “This would also have been possible in Thuringia if the Thuringian negotiators had made it clear from the start that we had to keep our election promises at this point.” However, unlike in Brandenburg, Thuringia is about a paper from three partners in which the CDU must also find itself – the regional association tried to manage this balancing act in which the paper discussed not only similarities but also differences.
The Federal Executive Board also complains about vague determinations on other points in the Thuringian exploratory results. “We regret that the Thuringian exploratory paper remains extremely vague on many questions that are important to us,” says the board’s resolution, which was first reported by the “Berliner Zeitung”. There were therefore no binding regulations regarding social housing, better control of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution or the maintenance of clinic locations in the state.
dpa
Source: Stern
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