Ramelow Advocates for CDU-Left Party Cooperation in Saxony-Anhalt to Block AfD

Bodo Ramelow, the former Minister-President of Thuringia and current Vice President of the Bundestag, has called for cooperation between the CDU and the Left Party in Saxony-Anhalt. He believes this collaboration is essential to prevent the far-right AfD party from taking power in the state.

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Anyone who wants to avert damage to the state of Saxony-Anhalt must therefore be able to talk to each other across party lines.

"Anyone who wants to avert damage to the state of Saxony-Anhalt must therefore be able to talk to each other across party lines," Ramelow told the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND). He criticized the CDU for indecisiveness, stating, "It is the CDU that is dithering instead of saying: We will cooperate on issues where we can cooperate."

Ramelow pointed to Thuringia as an example, where a coalition between the Left Party and the CDU has been in place for years due to the need to exclude the AfD. This situation requires parties to work together to maintain a majority in the state parliament.

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It is the CDU that is dithering instead of saying: We will cooperate on issues where we can cooperate.

In addition to his call for cooperation, Ramelow distanced himself from recent statements made by Left Party co-chair Ines Schwerdtner. Schwerdtner had suggested that nationalizations of housing companies would be a condition for a coalition in Berlin. Ramelow advised party leaders to exercise restraint on state-level issues before elections, calling Schwerdtner's remarks "not very helpful."

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So I found Ines Schwerdtner's statement on the expropriation of housing companies as a condition for a coalition in Berlin not very helpful.