BSW in the Brandenburg election: Will Wagenknecht's party promptly enter the government?

BERLIN LIVE BSW in the Brandenburg election: Will Wagenknecht's party promptly enter the government? Article by Marcel Görmann • 6 hours • 2 minutes reading time Third state election for the new BSW party - and also the third triumph? After the successful elections in Thuringia and Saxony, the Wagenknecht troop wants to make a splash in Brandenburg too. Polls in the run-up to the Brandenburg election indicated that they can expect around 14 percent. Without the party, nothing could happen for the SPD and CDU in the new state parliament. Will it be a day of joy for Sahra Wagenknecht and her loyalists? In Thuringia the party received 15.8 percent three weeks ago, in Saxony it was 11.8 percent. How much is in it today? From now on the polling stations for the state election in Brandenburg are open and the decision will be made. According to the polls, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, BSW for short, can expect 13 to 14 percent today. At least that is what the latest figures from INSA, the research group Wahlen (ZDF) and Infratest dimap (ARD) say. The party could become the fourth strongest force in the state parliament from scratch - just behind the CDU. The majority situation could become complicated - depending on whether the Greens, the Left and/or BVB/Free Voters make it into the state parliament. Even a direct mandate won could be enough for this. According to the latest surveys, however, it might not be enough for red and black alone. So it is not unrealistic that there will be a three-party coalition in Brandenburg again (so far the Social Democrats and Christian Democrats have governed with the Greens). The BSW could join the state government and form a so-called "blackberry coalition" with the SPD and CDU, in keeping with the party colors of red, black and purple. A long-standing SPD member who is now in the front row at the BSW would then lead the negotiations: Robert Crumbach. The 61-year-old labor judge became state leader and top candidate in Brandenburg in a flash. After 40 years of membership, he had become estranged from his first party, the SPD.