A few days ago we reported that the new BSW party could face a test in the east, especially in Thuringia. Does she want to help shape or rumble? While Sahra Wagenknecht would have better chances in the upcoming federal election campaign from her fundamental opposition role, Thuringia’s top woman Katja Wolf wants to take responsibility.
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There are now indications that Wagenknecht could provoke the end of negotiations with the Union. She is calling for a kind of mutiny against candidate for chancellor and CDU leader Friedrich Merz in his party’s eastern regional associations.
Wagenknecht: “Horrible speech from Merz”
As “Spiegel” reports, Wagenknecht is constantly raising new conditions for a coalition agreement with the CDU in Erfurt. While state chairwoman Wolf is hoping for a pragmatic compromise, the federal leader does not want to dilute the core brand of her alliance – meaning the no to arms deliveries in the Ukraine war against Putin. This is going so far that she now wants the CDU in East Germany to revolt against Merz.
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Wagenknecht told “Spiegel” on Sunday (October 20): “After Friedrich Merz’s appalling speech in the Bundestag this week, in which he effectively called for Germany to enter the war against Russia, we can only enter into coalitions with his party if “The state government clearly distances itself from such positions.”
Does the CDU let the BSW boss dictate its terms?
Merz insisted in the Bundestag on Wednesday that the West should pressure Putin with an ultimatum and otherwise lift the range limit for Western weapons. These weapons could then also attack targets on Russian territory. He accused Chancellor Olaf Scholz and other Western leaders of fear and demanded that Taurus cruise missiles be sent to Ukraine (more on Merz’s speech here).
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Wagenknecht’s new demands are causing further discontent in the CDU. Initial reactions on social networks are demanding that Thuringian CDU leader Mario Voigt now draw a red line. The Bochum MEP Dennis Radtke, for example, is outraged on The BSW wants to divide and destroy us just like the AfD. Unbearable!”
