Brandenburg: BSW in Brandenburg offen für engere Zusammenarbeit mit AfD
Brandenburgs AfD-Fraktionschef Berndt macht dem BSW im Landtag Avancen. Fraktionsvorsitzender Lüders will sich gemeinsamen Mehrheiten „nicht versperren“.
Potsdam - The BSW Landtag faction in Brandenburg is generally open to closer cooperation with the AfD, according to Niels-Olaf Lüders, the faction's chief. "If there are political majorities to implement something in the interest of Brandenburg's citizens, we will not stand in the way," he said. Lüders praised the AfD's willingness to declare such a principle.
However, joint proposals in the Landtag plenary are not planned at the moment. Lüders disavows the AfD as "counterproductive blockade" to the BSW. The BSW was part of a coalition with the SPD in Brandenburg until an internal dispute in the Landtag faction broke it apart. AfD faction leader Hans-Christoph Berndt called on the BSW to cooperate more, saying that if there are common intersections, then they should also put forward joint proposals.
It is up to the BSW to show the courage to do so, Lüders said. Lüders also welcomed the BSW's stance in Saxony-Anhalt, where the party supported the election of an AfD deputy as Landtag president. "I do not see the AfD faction as a whole as being right-wing extremist," Lüders stated. The Brandenburg Security Service classifies the AfD's Landtag faction and several AfD Landtag MPs as right-extremist.
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