It is often said that politics makes for strange allies, but sometimes they are less strange than they seem, as is the case in Germany.<\/p>\n
The CDU has been negotiating with the pro-Russian BSW communists<\/big><\/p>\n On September 3, the daily Bild<\/a> reported that the CDU has decided to hold talks with the BSW and the SPD. The CDU is the Christian Democratic Union, the German partner of the European People's Party,<\/strong> to which the current President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong>, belongs. The SPD is the Social Democratic Party, the German partner of the Party of European Socialists. BSW is the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, a pro-Russian party that supports communist orthodoxy.<\/strong> BSW split from the far-left party Die Linke last year because it was not pro-Russian enough and because of differences on immigration (BSW is against mass immigration<\/strong>).<\/p>\n These three parties aim to form an alliance to govern the state of Thuringia<\/strong>, where the recent regional elections gave victory to Alternative for Germany (AfD) <\/a>, a right-wing nationalist party that, like BSW, holds pro-Russian positions and rejects mass immigration, but from conservative positions.<\/p>\n It is also negotiating with the heir to the single party of communist Germany<\/big><\/p>\n Yesterday, the daily Junge Freiheit<\/a> reported that the CDU is also negotiating with Die Linke (The Left) to form a coalition in Thuringia, as the CDU-BSW-SPD coalition does not have a majority in that state. For those unfamiliar with German politics, Die Linke is the heir to the single-party system of the communist dictatorship in East Germany<\/a>. This far-left party even retains the masthead of that single-party system's official newspaper, \"Neues Deutschland\". Two years ago, a report by the NGO VoteWatch Europe identified Die Linke as the most pro-Russian party in Germany<\/a>.<\/p>\n The manipulation of many media to facilitate this alliance<\/big><\/p>\n These curious alliances could explain why many media outlets talk about the \"far right\" but not the \"far left\" in Germany<\/a>, despite there being two communist formations with parliamentary representation, such as BSW and Die Linke. Of course, this is not a problem exclusive to Germany. A few days ago, the Spanish newspaper La Raz\u00f3n, close to the Popular Party, described BSW as \"left\", nothing more<\/a>, while referring to AfD as \"far-right\".<\/p>\n The CDU and its journey to the ideological left<\/big><\/p>\n Just like the Partido Popular in Spain, the German CDU has gradually adopted the ideological dogmas of the left<\/strong> on issues such as abortion, immigration, environmentalism and gender ideology. In fact, Von der Leyen, member of the CDU, has been governing with the Socialists in Brussels for years<\/a>. They were only one simple step away from governing with the Communists as well.<\/p>\n The precedent of Poland and the case of Spain<\/big><\/p>\n Let us recall, in case anyone has forgotten, that last year the Polish partners of the EPP also allied themselves with the socialists to govern Poland<\/a>. Meanwhile, in Spain the Popular Party and its related media insist on asserting the need to concentrate the centre-right vote to curb the left<\/strong>, while are handing over control of important institutions to the socialists<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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