MAGDEBURG – It is not yet the welding of the red-brown axis to hand Saxony-Anhalt over to the Alternative für Deutschland candidate, but we are close. After the openings that came even before Sunday’s vote, which gave AfD 44%, on Tuesday, September 8, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (Bsw) announced that, to start with, it will support its candidate for the presidency of the regional Parliament. In Berlin, Chancellor Friedrich Merz is increasingly under pressure, the target of open criticism now pouring from his own party.
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In Magdeburg, the parliamentary secretary of Bsw, John Lucas Dittrich, newly elected, announced: “AfD will receive our votes for the presidency of the regional Parliament.” It would be the first time for a far-right formation in Germany. A prelude to the coronation of Ulrich Siegmund as governor, an increasingly likely historic turning point.
Also in Thuringia, AfD is the strongest parliamentary group and there too, after the 2024 elections, it tried to win the presidency of the Landtag, but was rejected. In Thuringia, Bsw had entered a government coalition with CDU and SPD, but recent openings to AfD have disintegrated the party. About ten deputies and ministers have left, following Finance Minister Katja Wolf, who remains in the Executive. The CDU governor, Mario Voigt, however, finds himself in the minority.
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In Saxony-Anhalt, Bsw has five seats. Alternative für Deutschland has 39 and is only three short of an absolute majority. Siegmund has so far dodged the advances. The points of contact are many: from the pro-Putin line to the crackdown on immigration (although Bsw does not go as far as remigration). Siegmund, however, does not trust and much prefers to snatch elected officials from the Christian Democrats, with whom there would be a more natural affinity, dealing a new, hard blow to Merz.
The founder of Bsw, Sahra Wagenknecht, former of the Linke, has therefore decided to relaunch, casting a tempting bait: “For us it is indisputable that AfD has the right to the presidency of the regional Parliament.” The assembly will meet by October 6 and the first thing it will have to do is appoint a president.
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