After the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, one option could be to create a minority government under the leadership of the CDU, which would have to work with the left in certain areas. The two former government leaders strongly reject this. You are writing an open letter to Prime Minister Schulze.
Nearly two months before the Saxony-Anhalt state elections, two former CDU leaders warned Prime Minister Sven Schulz not to tolerate the left after the elections. In an open letter to Schulze, Karl-Heinz Daere and Gerd Gies wrote that in this case the CDU would “sink into nothingness.”
Gies was the first prime minister of Saxony-Anhalt after reunification, and Daere was minister of transport for many years. The newspapers Magdeburger Volksstimme and Mitteldeutsche Zeitung initially reported the open letter from the former CDU chairman.
The new state parliament will be elected in Saxony-Anhalt on September 6. According to the latest polls, the coalition of the CDU, SPD and FDP cannot defend its majority. The AfD is clearly ahead and aims for a one-man government. An alternative could be to consider a minority government led by the CDU, which might have to work with the left in certain areas.
Gies and Daher refer to the “Magdeburg Model”.
Daere categorically rejects this. Cooperation with the left will lead to a split in the CDU, the 82-year-old told the German Press Agency. “We didn’t take to the streets in 1989 so that the left could return to power.”
Gies and Döre refer to the “Magdeburg Model,” the SPD-led minority government in Saxony-Anhalt from 1994 to 2002 that allowed the “old SED” to tolerate itself. “This time has been devastating,” Schulze said in the letter. Meanwhile, the state became the national bearer of the “red lantern”.
Two former CDU leaders warn about the new publication. “The country will again suffer in its development.” The CDU cannot achieve its goals “at the mercy of constantly radicalizing parties on the right and left of the spectrum.”
Schulze responded in the ZDF program “Markus Lanz”. After the state elections, he does not want to become dependent on the left and the AfD. “I will not go to the AfD or the Left Party and ask for votes,” said the head of the ZDF program government, “Markus Lanz.” “I will not make myself dependent on the AfD or the Left Party,” said the CDU politician.
When asked whether he would tolerate left-wing elections in parliament, Schulze replied on the show: “I don’t plan to deal with such issues now.” First we have to wait for the elections on September 6th. If there is no majority from the center, “then there will probably be no prime minister election in Saxony-Anhalt for a long period of time.”
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