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CDU vice-president does not rule out BSW cooperation in the East
CDU federal deputy Karin Prien speaks out against cooperation with the Left Party and the AfD. With the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance, however, things are different – under certain conditions.
In contrast, Prien continues to reject cooperation with the Left Party and the AfD. The CDU’s “incompatibility decision” still applies here, which excludes any cooperation with the two parties, she said. At the federal level, she “cannot imagine any collaboration with the BSW at the moment.”
State elections are coming up in Brandenburg, Thuringia and Saxony in September. The situation is particularly complicated in Thuringia: in recent surveys, the AfD was in first place, the CDU in second place and the BSW about the same as the Left in third place. The question of how majorities could be formed in the federal state after the election and what a government could look like is completely open.