The German parliament went down to Heckles on Wednesday and employment after a “firewall” against working with the end right rupture.
An optional proposal that requires a stricter limit and asylum rules was adopted with the support of the extremely right alternative to Germany (AFD). During the stormy session, politicians of various parties threw criticism and blame each other.
The conservative leader of CDU -a Friedrich Merz, who outlined plans, defended his actions as “necessary”. But Chancellor Olaf Scholz scored a move as a “unforgivable mistake.”
Merz is now planning to propose a real legislation on Friday – again with a possible escort of AFD – aimed at suppression of immigration numbers and the rights of reuniting family.
But his proposed measures are very likely that he will enter into force of the election of this foreign February and – if they are – they could clash with the Law of the EU.
Referring to the support of the AFD for the proposal, the CDU leader told the Bundestag that politics is not wrong just because they are “wrong people back”.
“How many more children have to become a victim of such violent deeds before you believe that there is a threat to public security and the order?” he asked.
CDU leader – is intended for the next chancellor of Germany because of his leading position at the polling station – he also insisted that he neither sought nor wanted AFD support.
“Thinking about how the AFD Fraction will cheer up and their happy faces seem uncomfortable to me,” he told MPs.
Chancellor Scholz – Social Democrat whose coalition government collapsed last year – Merz was late for her actions.
“Since the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany more than 75 years ago, there has always been a clear consensus among all the democrats in our parliaments: we do not create a common thing with the extreme right.”
Germany is already full of debate about immigration after a series of fatal attacks in which a suspect is a seeker for asylum, recently in the city of Aschaffenburg.
This became the central issue in the election campaign, launched by the collapse of the Scholz Management Coalition.
On Wednesday, the proposal of the CDU, supported by the AFD -Ai liberal FDP, called for a “ban on” everyone who enters Germany without real documents -but cannot force the current government of the minority to act.
It is difficult to overestimate the importance of a firewall against the end right in German political culture. The memory of the Holocaust plays a fundamental role in modern Germany.
Prior to the vote on Wednesday, the Bundestag held its annual commemoration for the Nazis victim, during which the 88-year survivor Holocaust Roman Schwarzmann addressed Parliament.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier also gave a speech to MPs, urging Nazi crimes to never be forgotten. There should be no “line” that will end our historical responsibility as Germans, he said.
This is directly contrary to the AFD policy, which criticized the German culture of memory and advocated a wider view of the history of the country.
Partially, this is the reason that it was so shocked when Friedrich Merz said last week that he did not care if the AFD supported his parliamentary proposals or not.
This is contrary to not only his previous statements, but also by the official line of his party, which forbids the conservatives to rely on the far right in parliamentary voices.
AFD sections are a domestic intelligence service classified as right-wing extremists, but the party is currently in second place, although Merz has excluded any coalition with them.
This week, the latest poll showed that support for the conservative CDU has slipped several percentage points to 28%, while AFD rose slightly to 20%.
AFD leader Alice Weidel said the firewall represented a “anti-democratic Cartel Agreement” and predicted that it would fall apart over the coming years.
The opening of the door leaning on the support of the far right of the cube is for Merz, who believes that his increasingly radical attitude about migration will win the right -wingers who are tempted to vote for AfD.
But that way, he could risk losing his support to the center.
With these latest parliamentary proposals, Merz definitely said goodbye to the era of his multi -centrist conservative predecessor Angela Merkel, who said “Wir Schaffen Das” or “We Can” when Germany was facing a large number of migrants and refugees about ten years ago.
These proposals are symbolic, signaling what conservatives would like to do in power. But they are also a concrete signal to voters about who seems to be ready to accept the support.
Critics say he broke his word on a firewall. No wonder AFD cheered in parliament when the result was announced.
