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Siegmund rejects BSW support for AfD-led governmentA current Insa poll puts the AfD at 42 percent; according to the report, that is insufficient for its own absolute majority.
- Ulrich Siegmund wants to become minister-president of Saxony-Anhalt but rejects both governing without his own parliamentary majority and abstention by the BSW in the third ballot.
- An Insa poll commissioned by Bild gives the AfD 42 percent, the CDU 22, the Left 13, the SPD six and the BSW five percent, while the Greens and FDP each receive four percent.
- The BSW has said it will not actively elect either Siegmund or CDU lead candidate Sven Schulze, instead proposing a nonpartisan figure to govern with changing majorities and abstaining if that proposal is rejected.
- Under certain majority conditions, BSW abstention could enable Siegmund to become minister-president despite the AfD lacking an absolute majority of seats, but he rejects that possibility.
We can only do it on our own. Therefore 45 percent plus X. And therefore the absolute majority. That is the only way to save this country.— Ulrich Siegmund, AfD lead candidate, in a WELT TV interview during a campaign stop in Halle
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- At an event in Magdeburg, Oliver Kirchner supported formally regulating cooperation with the BSW in writing.
- Kirchner said differing positions could produce compromises and potentially allow the BSW to act as a corrective.
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- 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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- Ulrich Siegmund announced plans to stand for election during a regular state parliament session in December.
- The AfD holds 39 seats; electing Siegmund in the first two ballots requires 42 votes.
- The BSW holds five seats, will not vote for Siegmund, and may abstain in the third ballot.
- In the described third-ballot scenario, 39 opposing votes and five abstentions would produce 39–39; at least one extra vote or abstention would be needed.
to guarantee a stable majority in the first ballot— Ulrich Siegmund, AfD state chairman in the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament, in a YouTube video announcing his intention to run in a regular session of the state parliament.
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- Talks have so far remained noncommittal; working groups are next expected to examine specific policy issues.
- BSW rejects a coalition with the AfD and prefers a nonpartisan minister-president supported by shifting majorities.
- The state parliament is scheduled to convene on October 6; BSW plans to back the AfD candidate for parliament president.
In November or December we will have the first AfD-led government in Germany.— Ulrich Siegmund, AfD co-chair of the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament group, said this during discussions on forming a new government.
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