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The BSW top candidate Alexander King commented in a media report on differences in content with the AfD and cooperation on issues.
According to a media report, the BSW's top candidate, Alexander King, has distanced himself from the AfD. The overlap in content is “manageable,” King told rbb. He described the AfD as a militaristic party and rejected both its plans for so-called remigration and its rent and social policies.
At the same time, King defended the BSW's approach in Saxony-Anhalt to work with the AfD on individual issues. The election created a situation “in which all forces are forced to somehow talk to each other,” he told rbb. Through open discussion it is possible to overcome the divisions in society.
According to rbb, King committed himself to implementing the election decision “Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co”. So that “the budget doesn’t fall apart because of the whole thing,” he estimates a period of up to 30 years. The aim is to bring former municipal apartments back into public ownership.
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