160 1000 Germans went to the streets. large protest in Berlin

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W Berlin 160 000 people protested against CDU and AfD

At least 160 000 people protested in Berlin against the right-wing populist AfD and the Chadetic CDU and their joint vote in the Bundestag. The CDU movement broke the unwritten agreement of German politicians not to cooperate with the far right at national level," the AFP emphasises. specified an agreement has been in force in the country since planet War II.

Police say 160,000 people came to Berlin on Sunday. The organizers of the demonstration study that there were 200,000 of them.

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Protesters gathered in front of the Bundestag, where they moved towards the CDU organization headquarters. “We want it to be about us as loud as possible, we call on political parties, which are called “democratic” to defend this democracy,” said AFP Anna Schwarz, 1 of the protesters.

The 34-year-old stressed that she was attending specified a convention for the first time due to the fact that she felt that “we could no longer look distant from what was happening is besides serious.”

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The protest was directed primarily against the CDU/CSU Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz and its votes on migration policy in which Members of the Board voted this week with AfD.

Joint vote a AfD. large protests in Germany

On Wednesday, the Bundestag supported a proposal by a tiny majority to tighten migration policy. This was achieved thanks to the voices of the previously isolated AfD, which caused outrage to any German public opinion and politicians.

Although yet on Friday, the draft immigration regulation bill did not get a majority in the German parliament, the vote side by side with AfD sparked protests across the country. People took to the streets little than a period before the key, early national elections to be held on February 23.

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The protests began on Friday, and their accumulation was a Sunday protest in Berlin.

Saturday over 220,000 people marched in cities across the country, including Hamburg, Leipzig, Cologne and Stuttgart. It's data. submitted by the public broadcaster ARD.