Wagenknecht would represent Germany better through her intellect "and her appearance," says Kubicki

WELT Wagenknecht would represent Germany better through her intellect "and her appearance," says Kubicki Article by Jakob Gierth • 18 minutes. • 8 minutes reading time Shortly before the state elections in Brandenburg, FDP Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki also praised Sahra Wagenknecht. It is not just her intellectual brilliance that sets her apart. All developments in the live ticker. In Thuringia and Saxony, the difficult search for government majorities begins after the state elections. The Saxon Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) wants to form a "stable government" and is dependent on BSW and SPD or BSW and the Greens. The next state elections in Brandenburg will take place on September 22nd. 9:30 a.m. - "At least as populist as Markus Söder" FDP Vice President and Vice President of the Bundestag, Wolfgang Kubicki, is a fan of Sahra Wagenknecht. In the current edition of the talk show format “Politicians’ Grilling with Jan Philipp Burgard”, he told the WELT television station: “With her intellectual brilliance and her appearance, Sahra Wagenknecht would represent Germany better than many others we have here.” The entire program will be broadcast on Saturday from 10:30 a.m. The BSW founder “sometimes changes her positions from A to B in a relatively short space of time”. But people don’t notice that or don’t care because they say: “Finally, someone you can show off.” He sees the problem as “that we don’t all know exactly what the party’s political principles are”. And: “Ms Wagenknecht is at least as populist as Markus Söder.” As in the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia, a double-digit result for the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance in the elections in Brandenburg seems realistic. Saxony Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) and Mario Voigt from the Thuringian CDU both visited Wagenknecht in Berlin to discuss possible political cooperation. Thursday, September 12th: 7:30 p.m. - Voigt and Wagenknecht speak to each other Almost two weeks after the state election in Thuringia, CDU top candidate Mario Voigt and BSW chairwoman Sahra Wagenknecht personally explored the possibilities of cooperation in Erfurt for the first time. The two met in Berlin on Thursday afternoon, as a spokeswoman for the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance confirmed. The "Ostthüringer Zeitung" had previously reported. Voigt is trying to forge a government after the Thuringian state election. The focus is on a possible blackberry coalition of CDU, BSW and SPD. Wagenknecht had said that anyone who wants to work with the BSW at the state level must also speak to her personally. According to the spokeswoman, the topics at the meeting with Voigt were: the political situation in Thuringia after the state elections, migration, strengthening the economy, health, care and school cancellations, as well as the foreign policy demands of the BSW. Wagenknecht wants a future state government to take a position against arms deliveries to Ukraine and for a negotiated peace, as well as against the stationing of US medium-range missiles in Germany. 6:05 p.m. - SPD in Brandenburg just behind AfD Shortly before the state elections in Brandenburg, the SPD is only just behind the AfD, which has been clearly in the lead up to now. According to a new survey published on Thursday evening by "Infratest dimap", the SPD is at 26 percent (plus three points compared to the previous week). The AfD is unchanged at 27 percent. The CDU, which is part of the government, would then slip to 16 percent (minus two). The BSW is only at 13 percent (minus two). The Greens would only get 4.5 percent and would no longer enter the state parliament. According to this survey, this would also apply to the Left Party (four percent) and the Free Voters (4.5 percent). Potsdam is currently governed by a coalition led by SPD Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke with the CDU and the Greens.