Migration debate: Merz: SPD, Greens and FDP should prevent majority with AfD

CDU boss Friedrich Merz asks SPD and Greens to agree to the Union applications for a harder migration policy in order to achieve a demarcation from the AfD in the Bundestag. In the case of votes, “it is due to the SPD, the Greens and the FDP, to prevent majorities from that none of us want,” said the Union Chancellor’s candidate after consultations from the party leadership in Berlin.

While the FDP parliamentary group wants to agree, accuse the SPD and the Greens Merz and the Union to violate constitution and European law and to make the AfD hopeful. They also doubt that the CDU chief maintains the “fire wall” to the AfD. Merz strictly rejects the allegations and sees the applications as an urgent consequence of the knife attack with two deaths in Aschaffenburg last week.

“I will go through the German Bundestag very consistently with the topics we have and who have experienced a new urgency since last week on Wednesday,” announced Merz. The Union will not have the SPD or the Greens, “certainly not by the AfD, to say which applications, which drives we submit to vote in the German Bundestag,” said Merz. “What is right in the matter does not become wrong by agreeing to the wrong ones.”

Merz considers asylum extraction to be implemented

Merz made it clear permanent controls at all German boundaries and significantly more deportations of rejected asylum seekers. “The German federal police have a safe sense of who to wave out and who doesn’t.” The border traffic then works largely trouble -free. More deportation asylum seekers who are subject to departure should not fail because the necessary infrastructure does not exist in order to take them into custody.

Accommodation options would have to be created as soon as possible. Container buildings are possible, there are also vacant barracks.

Among other things, with the application, the Union wants to enforce permanent border controls to all neighboring countries and an entry ban for all people without valid entry documents – even if they express a protective application.

Merz indicated that there have been no return flights to Afghanistan since August. Allegedly, the federal government is now planning one for the month of February. He suspected that it would be “well timed before an election date” as last before the state elections in Thuringia and Saxony.

FDP tip stands to the side of Merz

The FDP tip supports Merz’s suggestions. Their spirit corresponds to “what we mean by a new real policy in migration, namely more control and order,” said the designated FDP general secretary Marco Buschmann after a presidium meeting in Berlin. “Anyone who refuses to this topic only makes the extremists great.” It should not be admitted that the AfD can influence the behavior of the other parties with its voice behavior. FDP parliamentary group leader Christian Dürr announced the approval of the FDP MPs about the Union Group’s five-point plan.

FDP boss Christian Lindner had already signaled approval on Deutschlandfunk in the morning and said: “I don’t care whether the AfD is voted there.” It is about a political signal of the Bundestag.

BSW boss Sahra Wagenknecht has also expressed approval for the plans of Merz. Without the AfD, the Union together with the FDP and BSW would not have a majority beyond the SPD and the Greens.

The left considers Merz’s proposals to be illegal and useless. If this majorities accept the AfD in the Bundestag, he opens “the pandora’s box,” said left-wing boss Ines Schwerdtner in Berlin.

Hard SPD attacks on Merz

In the past few weeks, the CDU and CSU have blocked a security package with more powers for the authorities and a reform of the Federal Police Act, criticized SPD general secretary Matthias Miersch in Berlin. In addition, the European asylum reform to control migration in Germany should be implemented quickly. “Our suggestions – again – again – with all democratic factions,” says a board decision of the SPD.

SPD boss Saskia Esken told the Funke Mediengruppe, Merz games with fire and attempts to blackmail democratic parties by threatening working with the right-wing extremists of the AfD. If this happened, this would be an “unprecedented taboo break in the post -war history of the Federal Republic of Germany,” said Miersch.

Habeck warns before the end of the rule of law

Green Chancellor candidate Robert Habeck warned of the end of the rule of law. “The applications are contrary to European law or unconstitutional, and you cannot break the right to change the right to change the right afterwards,” he said in the ARD “daily topics”.

When you start breaking European law, Europe breaks, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on the sidelines of an EU Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Brussels. She wants to apologize for the uncertainty caused by the debate among the European partners.

Union: Tens of thousands of police officers are missing for Merz plans

From the perspective of the police union (GdP), Merz’s plans cannot be implemented without thousands of new employees. “8,000 to 10,000 additional forces would certainly be required to control the border extensively,” said the GdP boss for the federal police, Andreas Roßkopf, the “Rheinische Post”. The riot police already supported around 1,000 colleagues at the border every week.

Austria’s Chancellor criticizes Merz ‘project

In Austria, Merz ‘plans for a fundamental rejection of those seeking protection at the German land borders are sometimes viewed critically. “We need – we all know that – common solutions,” said the managing Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg (ÖVP) on the sidelines of an EU meeting in Brussels. “If each of us simply pulls the tension bridges up, then we are all poorer and none is safer.”

The right FPÖ from Austria also spoke up. Party leader Herbert Kickl pointed out that Merz’s asylum plans had been requested by the FPÖ for a long time. Kickl is currently negotiating with the conservative ÖVP on a coalition led by the FPÖ. “Austria is going, Germany follows,” said Kickl to his plans to reject asylum seekers at the border.