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Scholz sees no basis for cooperation between the SPD and BSW
Shortly after its founding, the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance was already at five percent in nationwide surveys. However, Chancellor Olaf Scholz rules out cooperation between the SPD and BSW.
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.