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Wagenknecht calls for firewall to be removed after state parliament vote

Wagenknecht calls for firewall to be removed after state parliament vote
Sahra Wagenknecht, founder of the BSW, sees the firewall to the AfD as undemocratic. (Archive image) / Photo: Kay Nietfeld/dpa
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Sahra Wagenknecht wants to tear down the firewall to the AfD. She advocates a new democratic culture with changing majorities.

After a majority vote by the AfD and BSW in the Saxon state parliament on a motion by the Greens, Sahra Wagenknecht is calling for an end to the firewall against the AfD. "The undemocratic firewall must finally go," the BSW founder told the German Press Agency.

Motion by the Greens in Saxony adopted with AfD votes

Wagenknecht described the reactions to the vote in the Saxon state parliament on Wednesday evening, in which a motion by the Greens to support small slaughterhouses was adopted with votes from the AfD and BSW, as hysterical excitement. "It should be a completely normal parliamentary process for the majority will of the state parliament to prevail on a substantive issue."

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The BSW advocates a new democratic culture in which the argument counts and no one is excluded. "We always vote on the merits - no matter with whom," emphasized Wagenknecht. She called for the principle of alternating majorities in state parliaments. Her party is campaigning for such a model in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. "It would definitely be better than an absolute majority for the AfD, which would only change the sign for many undesirable developments - reporting offices, restrictions on freedom of expression, government-funded NGOs," said Wagenknecht.

The BSW founder had previously expressed her criticism of the firewall against the AfD. She has long called for the AfD to be dealt with more openly and to be included in governments.

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