Noisy about the “security package”: There are also rumblings among the Greens

Parts of the Greens’ base are rebelling against the legislative package planned by the traffic light, with which the federal government wants to improve the security situation. “We call on you: Vote against the so-called security package!” says an application that more than 120 Green Party members had signed by Wednesday afternoon. “The so-called security package contains measures that violate fundamental and human rights. We must prevent this together.”

Green resistance against “security package”

The authors of the open letter are concerned, among other things, that Germany is increasingly becoming a surveillance state and see the planned tightening of asylum law as a violation of the Geneva Refugee Convention.

Instead, the authors of the open letter are calling for “a new path and a new debate about security and migration” from the Green Party members of the Bundestag. The motion is not binding on MPs when they vote on Friday – as always, they are (at least in theory) bound solely by their conscience. The initiators of the Greens motion include a group around Enad Altaweel, spokesman for the Berlin Greens for diversity and anti-discrimination, and Elina Schumacher from the Berlin Greens Youth.

Opposition to the “security package” had previously become loud in parts of the SPD parliamentary group. Juso boss Philipp Türmer also called for star-Interview called on the Social Democratic parliamentarians to vote against the law on Friday. Meanwhile, Chancellor Olaf Scholz is said to have indirectly threatened internally with a vote of confidence.

After the fatal attack in Solingen, the traffic light government agreed to tighten security laws. Among other things, financial support for migrants is to be restricted, facial recognition software is to be used more extensively and a knife ban is to be introduced in certain places.