The German AfD (Alternative For Germany) has been electorally ascendent for many months now, which scares the hell out of the pro-EU parties that cater to the every whim of the EU bureaucrats that sit in Brussels.
To counter the influence of the populist party, the so-called “conservative” Christian Democrats (CDU) is forming an alliance with a “right-wing socialist” (?) party in order to keep AfD out of any governing coalition.
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Via Remix News (emphasis added):
Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU) were once coined a “conservative” party, but over the years, they have seen a dramatic shift towards the left. Now, they look to further cement this leftward shift following regional elections in autumn of this year, where the party is already signaling it will join a coalition with the newly formed BSW party led by Sahra Wagenknecht.
In many eastern states, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) is well in the lead, but BSW has chipped into that lead. In many states, the only possible coalition that could form, based on current polling, involves some combination of the AfD and CDU, or the CDU and BSW.
The CDU is clearly moving in the direction of the BSW and rules out any possible coalition with the AfD.
The newcomer left-wing party, the Alliance of Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), which bears the name of its founder, now has 10 percent support nationwide, according to the latest polls.
The party is just one percentage point behind the governing coalition Green Party and five percentage points ahead of the smallest party in the coalition, the Free Democrats (FDP). Its popularity is shown by the fact that the conservative CDU is now seeking the party’s cooperation at the regional level.
BSW conveniently came out of nowhere right at the crest of AfD’s electoral appeal, founded on January 8 of this year.
Via DW (emphasis added):
Sahra Wagenknecht on Monday, presented her recently announced political party to journalists in Berlin. The "Sarah Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) — Reason and Fairness," she said, will seek to establish itself as a true people's party and enter its first EU and German state elections this year.
Wagenknecht, who maintained her seat in Germany's Bundestag parliament when she abandoned the Left Party in October, said BSW would work toward overcoming the "incompetence and arrogance" of Berlin's current coalition government, claiming many voters "feel left behind."
Wagenknecht and some 40 former Left Party colleagues will make up the initial core of the party — which will change its name before the next scheduled German national elections in autumn 2025 — and work toward establishing a larger roster of party members to stand for elections across Germany in the near future.
The party’s ideology is a strange mix of self-professed socialism and right-wing politics — “socialism with a right-wing code.” What this means in practice is that it’s trying to strangle the AfD in its crib before it can assume power.
Continuing:
The BSW, for its part, has also ruled out an alliance with the AfD.
As some of the polls show in the eastern states, AfD may be on top, but if it has no coalition options, the party has nowhere to go. The CDU, although it is openly telegraphing it will work with the far left, does not appear to be harmed by this stance in the polls, where it is performing nearly as well as the AfD in many of these states.
