Parties - Weil sees BSW as a "stab in the flesh of the SPD"
Lower Saxony Minister-President Stephan Weil sees the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) as a serious threat to the SPD and urges his party to deal with it. "The BSW is already a thorn in the side of the SPD," said the SPD politician to the magazine "Stern." "We need to react to that." Party founder Sahra Wagenknecht is currently the projection surface for many people who feel unrepresented by politics. "That is certainly a clear signal with the fence post to the SPD," warned Weil.
The Minister-President, however, has doubts about the sustainability of the new party's success. "Sahra Wagenknecht is just spinning around," he said. He has not been able to identify a programmatic core from her yet. "And she does not really distance herself from xenophobic currents," added Weil.
Regarding the question of whether he considers coalitions between the SPD and BSW to be feasible, the Social Democrat replied that in Lower Saxony, he doesn't even know who he should talk to about that. The BSW hardly appears here. On a federal level, he sees "huge discrepancies, for example in foreign policy" and especially in the question of supporting Ukraine against the Russian attack war.
- Despite her significant influence as the founder of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), Stephan Weil, the Minister-President of Lower Saxony, believes that the party's success may not be sustainable.
- In response to the growing influence of the BSW, which he views as a threat to the SPD, Weil urged his party to take notice and develop a strategy.
- As the projection surface for many unrepresented individuals in politics, Sahra Wagenknecht has garnered attention in Berlin and beyond, even attracting attention from the SPD.
- Weil, however, expresses concerns about Wagenknecht's association with xenophobic currents and lack of clear programmatic direction, making potential coalitions between the SPD and BSW difficult, even in Lower Saxony, let alone on a federal level.
