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Amira Mohamed Ali (BSW): "We as BSW clearly named the issues [...] in the election campaign." Oldenburg/Bonn, October 28, 2024 - In an interview with the TV station phoenix, the co-party leader of the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance, Amira Mohamed Ali, emphasizes the toughness of her party in the exploratory and coalition talks in the federal states of Brandenburg, Thuringia and Saxony: "We as BSW clearly named the issues that we now insist on in the election campaign." This also includes issues that do not concern state politics, such as the stationing of US long-range missiles in Germany. Mohamed Ali counters criticism from the CDU regarding her party's behavior in exploratory talks with counter-criticism: "What we as BSW want is to stand by what we said before the election. That is perhaps an attitude that the CDU is not really familiar with." With this attitude, the BSW also wants to reach the people who voted for the AfD in Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia. The fact that her party's line is successful has been demonstrated by the exploratory talks in Brandenburg between the SPD and the BSW. Such "sensible concessions" are also needed in the other states, said Mohamed Ali. In response to the accusation that party leader Sahra Wagenknecht is interfering too much in this concession in exploratory talks, she continued: "I think it is quite normal for the parties to act in unison and to coordinate with each other." This does not create a conflict of interest in the party between the federal and state levels, as the state associations do not "join a government for the sake of governing." To what extent the SPD, after the meeting with the BSW in Brandenburg, will also represent an option for her party at the federal level after the 2025 federal elections cannot yet be said, but, said Mohamed Ali: "At the moment I do not see any rapprochement there."