<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" alt="Katja Wolf, BSW parliamentary group leader in Thuringia, speaks to journalists before the start of a member meeting of the BSW regional association in Thuringia on November 2nd, 2024″ class=”pei0kpe”/>The BSW in Thuringia had just reached an agreement in the explorations with the CDU and SPD when the party leadership intervened. A showdown puts the BSW to the test.02.11.2024 | 2:09 minAfter criticism within the party, Thuringia’s BSW state chief Katja Wolf wants to “further sharpen” the positions on war and peace in the coalition negotiations with the CDU and SPD. She announced this after a members’ meeting in Erfurt, at which, among other things, the exploratory paper, which was controversial in the party and which the BSW had agreed with the CDU and SPD, was discussed internally. The topic itself should be stated “very clearly” in a coalition paper in order to take into account the core brand of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – namely a commitment to diplomacy and peace, said Wolf.The showdown between the Thuringian BSW and the party executive shows a “shift in power towards the federal leadership,” said ZDF correspondent Melanie Haack from Erfurt.02.11.2024 | 2:03 minutes
Wolf sees himself strengthened for coalition talks
The coalition talks are scheduled to begin at the beginning of the week. After the exchange with the members, the state chairwoman, who has recently come under great pressure, feels strengthened. Wolf spoke of a good discussion that was characterized by a high sense of responsibility. In the negotiations with the CDU and SPD about a possible government formation, the aim is now to include as much of the BSW election program as possible.
At the same time, she made it clear that the discussion about the hard-won peace preamble should not be reopened:
In this respect, the preamble is through.
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Katja Wolf
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BSW General Secretary: Stand together as a party
BSW General Secretary Christian Leye said that they would leave the meeting in Erfurt united. “It is clear to us that we stand together as a party – even after this discussion.” After the members’ meeting, there was agreement that coalition negotiations should begin and that a coalition agreement negotiated there should more clearly bear the signature of the BSW on foreign policy, but also on state policy issues.
If such a coalition agreement is in place, “we will lay out the cards together and decide together as a party which way to go,” said Leye.
Either you go into a government as a group, that would be good, or you go a different route as a group, that would also be good.
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Christian Leye, BSW General Secretary
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BSW federal leadership intervenes in Thuringia
The BSW leadership around Sahra Wagenknecht had recently formulated conditions for the formation of a government in Thuringia. In a resolution published on the party’s homepage, the federal executive board called on the Thuringian BSW regional association to specify foreign policy and also state policy positions in the coalition negotiations with the CDU and SPD. If this does not succeed, one should go into opposition, it was said. The Thuringian BSW had agreed with the CDU and SPD on a formula compromise in the preamble, in which the differences between the parties in dealing with the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine became clear became. Sahra Wagenknecht herself described the Thuringian compromise paper as a mistake.
Source: dpa
