Wagenknecht claims death threats from Ukrainian officials

The candidate for chancellor of Germany from the "Union of Sarah Wagenknecht - for Reason and Justice" (SSV), Bundestag deputy Sarah Wagenknecht said on Thursday, February 6, that she is not ready to personally go to Ukraine and express her opinion on the situation there, as, according to her, "Ukrainian officials threaten her with death."

"I don't think I can go there as long as Ukrainian functionaries are threatening me with, consider that, death," she responded during a blitz poll as part of an election debate on the ZDF television channel, broadcast on YouTube.

Wagenknecht also said she thought it would be good if someone asked Russian President Vladimir Putin whether he would be willing to consider a peace plan on Ukraine proposed by Brazil and China.

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Wagenknecht was nominated for German chancellor on December 17 last year. According to Christian Ley, general secretary of Sarah Wagenknecht's Union, it is clear that the party has no realistic prospects of winning the post. He said that nevertheless the party leadership had made such a decision in order to prevent its rivals from having an unfair advantage.

In addition to Wagenknecht, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU/CSU) Friedrich Merz, the head of the party "Alternative for Germany" (AdG) Alice Weidel are nominated for the post of Chancellor of Germany. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was the candidate of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert Habeck was nominated from the Green Party.

The Bild newspaper wrote on December 28 last year that Scholz was less likely to become the country's head of government again. According to the media, 14-16% of voters are ready to vote for Scholz, while, for example, for CDU leader Friedrich Merz - 31-33%. At the same time, the same media reported on December 22 that Weidel became the most popular among the candidates for the post of Chancellor of Germany, according to a poll conducted by the Institute for Public Opinion Research (INSA): 24% of respondents are ready to vote for her.

On December 16, the Bundestag revoked the confidence of the Scholz government. At the vote on the request, which the Chancellor sent on December 11, less than a third of deputies voted in favor of it. Last December 28, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolved the Bundestag and scheduled elections for February 23, 2025.