In a far-right magazine: Advertisements solicited BSW second votes from AfD voters
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Report: Ads aimed to boost BSW among AfD votersThe BSW received slightly more than five percent in Saxony-Anhalt, with more second votes than first votes.
- According to Spiegel research, two civic organizations supported the BSW’s campaign before the election.
- The Bund strategischer Wähler urged AfD first votes and BSW second votes in the far-right Compact magazine.
- According to Spiegel, Bürger für den Frieden also recommended AfD first votes and BSW second votes.
- The BSW said it learned about the campaigns only through Spiegel and is examining their nature, scope, and originators.
Only this will bring about the new turning point against war, a firewall, and drastic cuts.— Bund strategischer Wähler, in an advertisement published in the right-wing Compact magazine ahead of the Saxony-Anhalt state election
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- Kirchner said differing positions could produce compromises and potentially allow the BSW to act as a corrective.
- The AfD clearly won September’s state election but missed its goal of governing alone; talks with the BSW continue.
- The BSW plans to abstain in December’s scheduled minister-president election; the AfD has 39 seats, BSW five, and 42 constitute a majority.
I really ask that we let ourselves negotiate this first, fix it in writing, so that no one after two years says: ‘Well, that’s not how we discussed it. Everything that is fixed in writing is there.’— Oliver Kirchner, AfD-Co-Fraktionschef, at a gathering of AfD and BSW politicians in Magdeburg
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- The Saxony-Anhalt BSW will not change its AfD policy and plans to abstain from December’s vote on Ulrich Siegmund.
- BSW executive board member Klaus Ernst warned that the dinner at „Compact“ could prompt party resignations.
I ran for office to prevent the AfD.— Doreen Voigt, Saxony MP, in an MDR interview
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- After criticism from Sahra Wagenknecht and Fabio De Masi, Claudia Wittig later regretted staying for the dinner.
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- Schulze also urged the AfD to form a government quickly, stressing the importance of beginning to act.
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