Dagdelen sets conditions for BSW government participation

The foreign policy expert of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), Sevim Dagdelen, has specified the conditions for her party's participation in government in Thuringia and Saxony. "We want a coalition agreement to stipulate that the state government will speak out against further arms deliveries to Ukraine, for more diplomatic efforts by the federal government and against the US missile plans. A clear reversal is needed here," she told the "Berliner Zeitung" (online edition Saturday).

She was referring, among other things, to the announcement by the USA and the German government on the deployment of Tomahawk cruise missiles, SM-6 missiles and new hypersonic weapons in Germany for 2026.

The BSW wants to involve the Bundesrat in the issue of missile deployments. Dagdelen said: "The Bundesrat has its own foreign policy committee, which only recently dealt with a resolution on German-Polish relations. Why shouldn't it deal with German-Ukrainian relations, keyword: arms deliveries, or with German-American relations with regard to the US missile deployments?"

After the state elections last Sunday, difficult government formations are pending in Saxony and Thuringia. In Thuringia, a coalition of CDU, SPD and BSW would have 44 out of 88 parliamentary seats and could also be dependent on votes from the Left Party to pass legislation without AfD support. In Saxony, the CDU, BSW and SPD could theoretically form a coalition.