Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Schulze rules out a coalition with the AfD

Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Sven Schulze (CDU) has once again ruled out cooperation with the AfD. “Of course we have huge problems within the Union that we have to solve. That is clear. But the solution is not a coalition with the AfD,” said Schulze on the ARD program “Maischberger”.

The parliamentary managing director of the AfD parliamentary group, Bernd Baumann, asked the Union not to work with “Left-Green” in the broadcast. “The majority of the population wants the end of left-wing politics,” said Baumann. “The CDU has the decisive leverage.”

The Union must decide whether it wants to be part of the solution or part of the problem, said Baumann. There is a bloc formation with the Left, SPD, Greens on the one hand and the AfD on the other. “And in between the CDU is crushed.”

AfD is holding talks with BSW in Magdeburg

Schulze vehemently rejects cooperation with the AfD, which won the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt well ahead of the CDU. “You are not a party that can really bring Germany forward in the end,” said the CDU politician. The AfD promises everything, but is already realizing in Saxony-Anhalt that governing is something different than opposition.

In Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD is currently holding talks with the BSW about forming a government. The BSW rules out a coalition. It's about content that an AfD-led minority government would have to implement. There are still no results three weeks after the state elections.

Baumann: CDU is still refusing to talk

“The CDU is still refusing to talk,” said Baumann. However, Schulze ruled out that this would happen. “You are the party that says very clearly that its goal is to completely destroy the CDU.” You don't take part in forming a government and go into opposition. “We have suffered a crushing defeat,” said the Prime Minister.

The CDU also recently rejected an invitation from the SPD to a conversation about forming a government apart from the AfD, for example with a non-partisan prime minister. Representatives of the Social Democrats, Greens, Left and BSW will still meet in Magdeburg on Tuesday to discuss it. The four factions do not have a majority in parliament; this would only exist together with the CDU.