The warning comes just weeks before the vote on September 6: Saxony-Anhalt’s Sven Schulze (CDU) sees the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) as a potential enabler for the AfD. “The BSW will support the AfD 100 percent,” the head of government told the Augsburger Allgemeine. Recent polls give the AfD more than 40 percent, while the CDU reaches up to 24 percent.
Schulze is fighting to keep the state chancellery. Should the AfD become the strongest force, Schulze says it could even govern alone. However, BSW leader Amira Mohamed Ali has already ruled out a coalition between her party and the AfD.
Schulze attributed the AfD’s surge to the lingering experiences of many East Germans since the end of the GDR – loss of jobs, security, and familiar structures. The AfD has no solid answer to these fears. In this context, he defended the pension without deductions after 45 working years as a matter of decency, positioning himself against reform plans from Berlin.
Source: www.zeit.de
