• alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 hours ago

    I kinda wondered about BSW though. They are left, they are anti-immigration and they are capable of pulling votes from AfD and Die Linke - the two parties that compete most with CDU/CSU and SPD, respectively.

    So they could be quite a strategic partner.

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      7 hours ago

      They have repeatedly made it clear that for them to even consider a coalition, the other parties would have to agree to stop all support for Ukraine and make peace with Russia with a full normalisation of relations. Sarah Wagenknecht won’t budge on that, and that makes any coalition talks with them unfeasible for the other parties.

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      6 hours ago

      BSW is basically the United Russia party of Germany. And they will not get any seats in parliament according to the current projections.

    • You@feddit.org
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      BSW completely depends on their (Co-) party chairwoman and name giver Sahra Wagenknecht who is simply unwilling to bear gouvernmental responsibility. And she is considered to be a russian mouthpiece.

      Merz ruled out to form a coalition with BSW and I don’t see any sane person who would try to sway this decision.