According to statements by AfD boss Tino Chrupalla, a collaboration between his party and the alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) also at the federal level, BSW-PKO party leader Amira Mohamed Ali has contested such plans.
“Our attitude to the AfD has not changed. There is no collaboration because we are far too far apart” in terms of content “said Mohamed Ali of the “Rheinische Post”. There is also “no reason” for discussions at the federal level.
BSW boss and namesake Sahra Wagenknecht had recently opened openly for discussions with the AfD what criticized criticism from other parties. However, she emphasized several times that there were no conversations.
However, AfD boss Tino Chrupalla also reported on the BSW of contacts by his party on Thursday evening. He told the World TV broadcaster that there are discussions “about what moves Germany and how to change majorities”.
On the question of whether he and his co-chair Alice Weidel would be available for discussions with BSW founder Wagenknecht, Chrupalla said: “Yes, so always.”
Mohamad Ali supports BSW contact for the AfD in Thuringia
In Thuringia, the chairman of the BSW parliamentary group, Frank Augsten, spoke to the AfD parliamentary group leader Björn Höcke on Wednesday. The occasion was a blockade in the occupation of important judicial bodies in the state. According to both sides, the state policy was also discussed in general.
The co-chair of the Federal Party now said that this conversation between the BSW and the AfD was absolutely necessary in Thuringia ”in order to clarify the occupation of judge positions.
At the same time, Mohamed Ali emphasized: “But we also do not entrench ourselves with the old parties behind fire walls that help the AfD and not harm. We are concerned with content.”
The AfD state association Thuringia is classified by the state constitutional protection as secure right-wing extremist. Höcke is one of the spokesman of the extreme right in the AfD. The BSW rules in Thuringia in a coalition with the CDU and SPD.
The party has not been represented in the Bundestag since the election in February – before that it had placed MPs who had switched from the left to the newly founded BSW. (dpa, AFP)
Source: Tagesspiegel
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