New party in Germany seeks to stop Ukraine aid
This was reported by an Ukrinform correspondent.
The main points of the campaign include deepening relations with Russia, resuming oil and gas exports from Russia with the signing of multi-year contracts, and lifting Russia sanctions, which the party claimed harmed European economy rather than the Kremlin and failed to stop the war.
The party also proposes a reduction to the point of putting to a halt any supply of German weapons to Ukraine, as well as an immediate ceasefire.
"In order to encourage Russia to launch negotiations, an immediate cessation of all arms exports to Ukraine should be proposed," the party believes. It insists that stable peace and security in Europe cannot be safeguarded against the backdrop of a conflict with a nuclear power, and that the new European peace order must "in the long term also include Russia." Sara Wagenknecht calls for making the EU a "Peaceful Project", which is what it was founded on.
The program also contains sharp criticism of the EU itself in its current form, a demand to give member states more powers in decision-making and a proposal to "introduce a moratorium on the enlargement process" with an emphasis on the need to revoke membership negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova.
The new party calls for distancing from the U.S.
During her address, Wagenknecht called the current German government "the stupidest government in Europe." Conservatives from the CDU/CSU bloc and the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), whom she considers real extremists, and individual members of the party to be outright Nazis, were also mentioned. At the same time, the politician did not rule out that moderate members of the AfD, who, from her point of view, "correctly" approach the issue of policy regarding Ukraine, may later join her party.
The former leader of the Left Party, Sara Wagenknecht, announced plans to establish her own political force last fall. She brought along a large part of lawmakers from this faction in the Bundestag, who are currently represented in the parliament as "independent".
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