In Germany, Sara Wagenknecht's Alliance included pro-Russian narratives in its election program

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In Germany, Sara Wagenknecht's Alliance included pro-Russian narratives in its election program

Sarah Wagenknecht's Alliance (BSW) held a "pre-election" congress in Bonn on Sunday, at which the leader of the political force voiced already known Russian narratives, in particular about the inadmissibility of supplying Ukraine with weapons, the lifting of sanctions, and also harshly criticized the USA.

This was reported by the correspondent of Ukrinform.

Sara Wagenknecht, the founder and leader of the Alliance of her name, said that the BSW has already become a "power factor in Germany" in its one year of existence and should be in the next Bundestag to continue to put pressure on the government on important issues.

"We put pressure on other parties, especially on the existential issue of war and peace. Previous intransigence on the Taurus issue by Olaf Scholz, the same man who otherwise backed down only weeks later when faced with demands from the 'war hawks' for arms supplies," Wagenknecht said, taking credit for the missiles not being handed over. .

She noted that the BSW should go to the next Bundestag to keep up the pressure on those who have a different view of what aid to Ukraine should look like.

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"In a war-obsessed time when everyone else was talking about guns and more guns, we managed to anchor efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and the rejection of American intermediate-range missiles in coalition agreements. In this way, we put the issue of peace at the center of the public discussion," the politician said.

The party's congressional election manifesto — a 39-page document titled "Our Country Deserves More" — focused largely on social issues, promising to improve the well-being of ordinary Germans by boosting the economy. For this, she emphasized, Germany needs cheap gas.

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"We must return to the criterion of the lowest price, not ideology and double standards. We need long-term contracts like before. We don't need to buy three times more expensive gas from the USA," Wagenknecht said.

She insists that sanctions "have nothing to do with war and have zero effect" and they have "nothing to do with morality." According to her, anti-Russian sanctions work exclusively on the USA and are aimed at increasing the share of the United States in world markets and, therefore, reducing the share of Germany and Europe.




The main points of the program are the deepening of relations with Russia, the resumption of oil and gas exports from the Russian Federation with the signing of multi-year contracts, the lifting of sanctions that, they say, harmed not the Russian economy, but the European one, and the war in Ukraine, they say, still did not stop.

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They call for an end to the supply of German weapons to Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire, holding negotiations on the occupied territories and holding referendums there. They demand readiness for compromises from Ukraine.

She and her fellow party members left the Bundestag when the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, spoke there in June.

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