Only BSW Accepts AfD Talks Offer in Saxony-Anhalt

Spiegel

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Talking secretly, complaining in public: The AfD met in Saxony-Anhalt for a first conversation with the BSW and expressed disparately about its chairman. The BSW boss reacts pointedly.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung

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It is still unclear whether Ulrich Siegmund will become Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt. The BSW now excludes a coalition with the AfD – but also with all other parties.

derwesten.de

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Ulrich Siegmund wanted to rule. He preferred to rule alone, with a stable majority and without having to rely on other parties. For weeks, the AfD top candidate in Saxony-Anhalt declared that his party had to "get 45 percent plus X". Even a separate majority of only one vote was too little for him later. The risk that a member of [...]

mdr.de

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The BSW approved talks with the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt. Before the election, it had excluded a coalition, but left a cooperation in substantive matters open. After the preliminary result, both factions had a majority together. What a government might look like remains disputed.