• alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    32·
    11 hours ago

    I kinda wondered about BSW though. They are left, they are anti-immigration and they are capable of pulling votes from AfD and Die Linke - the two parties that compete most with CDU/CSU and SPD, respectively.

    So they could be quite a strategic partner.

    • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      BSW is basically the United Russia party of Germany. And they will not get any seats in parliament according to the current projections.

    • PonyOfWar@pawb.socialEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      They have repeatedly made it clear that for them to even consider a coalition, the other parties would have to agree to stop all support for Ukraine and make peace with Russia with a full normalisation of relations. Sarah Wagenknecht won’t budge on that, and that makes any coalition talks with them unfeasible for the other parties.

    • You@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      BSW completely depends on their (Co-) party chairwoman and name giver Sahra Wagenknecht who is simply unwilling to bear gouvernmental responsibility. And she is considered to be a russian mouthpiece.

      Merz ruled out to form a coalition with BSW and I don’t see any sane person who would try to sway this decision.

      • alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        51 minutes ago

        Thanks guys for answering. As a Dutch person I don’t know all the details.

        I guess it’s really good you guys have a 5% threshold. Here in the Netherlands, things are just too chaotic without it.