“The AfD people can triumph as much as they want, but specified cooperation will not be,” stressed the candidate of the chapedencies (CDU) for Chancellor on Wednesday evening in the public broadcaster ARD.
Merz reiterated his offer to the SPD and the Greens to discuss the draft chadek law on the simplification of illegal immigration. The Bundestag will vote on it on Friday. “I want a majority in the political center of our parliament,” said the CDU leader.
‘Tab infringement’
Chancellor Olaf Scholz called the proposal adopted jointly on Wednesday by the Chadezia, AfD and Liberals (FDP) "a taboo instigation". In Scholz's opinion, on 29 January, he was "a likely very crucial day in the past of the national Republic of Germany," said Scholz in the ARD programme.
Chadec, according to the SPD leader, broke the consensus that existed among the democrats in Germany throughout the post-war period. — Consensus that there should be no cooperation between democratic parties and the utmost right. This is what happened today,” said Scholz. He added that although Friedrich Merz repeatedly assured that he would not intentionally calculate and number on the voices of the far right, he did so. — Which is why I don't think I can trust him anymore, which I did a week ago. “Scolz said.
AfD politicians welcomed the adoption of the proposal to tighten migration policy. organization candidate for Chancellor Alice Weidel called the Bundestag vote "a large day for democracy". “We see that there is simply a majority of citizens and that reasonable conclusions can be voted on,” said Weidel. According to Co-President AfD, Tino Chrupalli is “a turning point in migration policy”.
End of AfD isolation?
Most of the Bundestag supported on Wednesday the Chadecia request, which calls, inter alia, for return at the borders of asylum seekers in Germany. 348 members of the Parliamentary Group of Liberals (FDP) and 6 non-attached Members voted in favour of his adoption. 344 Members voted against. The proposal has no legally binding effect.
Prior to the vote, the media speculated that there might be a breakthrough in the Bundestag erstwhile the proposal to tighten migration policy gained the majority by far-right AfD votes. To date, major parties have tried to isolate AfD on the German political stage.
Migration policy has become the most crucial subject of the run before the Bundestag elections, scheduled for 23 February. The discussions became peculiarly lively after knife attack on kindergarten group last week in Aschaffenburg (Bavaria). A two-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man died in it.
