German partner of the People's Party negotiates an alliance with the pro-Russian far left

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.

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Germany and the bias of talking about the 'extreme right' but not the 'extreme left'

The CDU has been negotiating with the pro-Russian BSW communists

On September 3, the daily Bild 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, to which the current President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, 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. 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).

These three parties aim to form an alliance to govern the state of Thuringia, where the recent regional elections gave victory to Alternative for Germany (AfD) , a right-wing nationalist party that, like BSW, holds pro-Russian positions and rejects mass immigration, but from conservative positions.

It is also negotiating with the heir to the single party of communist Germany

Yesterday, the daily Junge Freiheit 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. 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.

The manipulation of many media to facilitate this alliance

These curious alliances could explain why many media outlets talk about the "far right" but not the "far left" in Germany, 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 Razón, close to the Popular Party, described BSW as "left", nothing more, while referring to AfD as "far-right".

The CDU and its journey to the ideological left

Just like the Partido Popular in Spain, the German CDU has gradually adopted the ideological dogmas of the left 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. They were only one simple step away from governing with the Communists as well.

The precedent of Poland and the case of Spain

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. 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, while are handing over control of important institutions to the socialists.

In relation to all this, I cannot help but remember that five years ago I warned that if we continue like this, centrism will imply singing 'The International', based on the fallacy of the middle point that places the political center in a space that years ago was part of the left, in the face of the progressive radicalization of the socialists. In Germany, the CDU is already very close to fulfilling my prediction.

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