“No plan”: Scholz rules out collaboration with Wagenknecht. “The BSW has no suggestions for a better future in the countries and no plan for where Germany should head,” says Chancellor.

In the three federal states that are holding state elections in September - Saxony, Brandenburg and Thuringia - the SPD has so far had a bad hand. In surveys, the party only received more votes (17 percent) than the BSW (13) in Brandenburg, where it leads the black-red-green coalition.