BSW founder Sahra Wagenknecht has taken a wait-and-see approach to talks between her party and the CDU and SPD following the state elections in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg. While she still had the feeling after the elections that both the CDU and SPD had "understood" the election results, she now has the impression that the parties want to carry on as before, Wagenknecht told Deutschlandfunk radio. "And that's not what we were elected for."
Wagenknecht criticizes Merz
Wagenknecht criticized statements by CDU leader Friedrich Merz on the possible cooperation between his party and the BSW at state level. Merz had recently said on the ARD program "Caren Miosga": "Ms Wagenknecht has to accept that there are decisions that are irrevocable." These are the commitment to the West and Nato membership.
Wagenknecht now said that it was not helpful that Merz dictated to his negotiators at state level what they were not allowed to do. "We had a different position in the past."
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