“Beyond my imagination”
Scholz doesn’t even want to think about working with BSW
March 28, 2024, 2:51 a.m
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If you believe current surveys, it seems quite realistic that the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) will be represented in the Bundestag in the future, and it is likely to move into several East German state parliaments in the fall. For Chancellor Scholz, mind games about possible coalitions are completely out of the question.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz cannot imagine government cooperation between his SPD and the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW). “There is absolutely nothing to be said for that,” Scholz told the “Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung” in the editorial network Germany (RND). “The BSW has no suggestions for a better future in the countries and no plan for where Germany should head. That’s why, in my opinion, such mental games are out of the question.”
Asked specifically whether he thought state governments with the participation of the BSW and SPD were conceivable after the elections in several eastern German federal states in September, Scholz said: “No, that is beyond my imagination.”
The former left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht and her colleagues founded the BSW party in January. The BSW wants to run in the European elections in June as well as in the state elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg. In nationwide polls the party is at five percent or even slightly above. In the current RTL/ntv trend barometer, it was ahead of the FDP with 4 percent and the Left, which had 3 percent.