Saxony-Anhalt Gov. Sven Schulze of the Christian Democratic Union criticized the initiative. He noted that the resolution did not mention Russian aggression, even though Russia shells Ukrainian cities daily. Schulze said the AfD and BSW wanted to deprive Ukraine of the ability to defend itself. The state government will decide how to proceed after further discussion.
Get your shit together Germany.
BSW also voted for it and they used to be part of the left Linke. In ideology they basically want the GDR back in a lot of ways. Not the ideal Communism, but what the GDR actually was. As in a dictatorship with a strong social welfare system, hard government intervention in the economy. The foreign policy is hardcore pacifist. As in no weapons to Ukraine and anybody else. They also run against refugees.
You find this a lot in the former Easter Block. There is a huge demand for a feeling of safety. Melanchon in France also seems to run on a similar platform.
Yeah, barely even clearing the 5% threshold is “huge demand”. Like, when they even can’t cut it in a failed state like Sachsen-Anhalt, the threat of BSW is de facto nonexistant. It can’t work anyway, like trying to have slightly progressive economy politics and hard right societal politics is a contradiction which can’t be really solved.
It adds to the Russian block though. So you can add those 5% to whatever the AfD has, on any matters Russia cares about.
That is basically Stalinism.