The SPD is looking for the showdown with Merz in the migration debate

Is that the moment to wait for the SPD? The hoped -for loss of control of the opponent – and the longed -for economic stimulus program for the Chancellor’s Party, which is a few weeks before the election, looks worries about the fortailing?

After the cutting asylum suggestion by Union Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his announcement to accept voices for a possible majority in case of doubt, the SPD campaign promptly placed a cache on the Internet: “No cooperation with Nazis. Since 1863.”

Being the bulwark against fascism is part of the self -image of the Social Democrats. The original motif is now to revive the sluggish election campaign and mobilize your own supporters. After all, Merz’s “fire wall”, as the co-party chairman Saskia Esken emphasized in Wiesbaden on Saturday, “built from paper” and “burns Lichterloh”.

Above all, the Chancellor’s party is under fire, struggles for a strategy and sovereignty of interpretation after the murders in Aschaffenburg in an increasingly excited debate.

The party seems driven by the Union and its full -bodied asylum plans: Do the SPD do not draw any new conclusions from the acts of violence in the past few months? This question is in the room, raised by the CDU chairman. Transparent, but effective. About shortly before the Bundestag election – with currently disastrous survey values.

The SPD is now trying to get back on the offensive by looking for the showdown in parliament. The calculation: Merz is to be convicted as a blocker and player to whom the country should not be entrusted, he was already a candidate for the Chancellery of committing a “taboo break”. What is meant: that the Union would also accept votes from the AfD for a possible majority. While the SPD is stable, decent and prudent acts. At least that’s how the SPD wants it to be understood.

But acts the SPD at all – or only mops against Merz ‘suggestions? This impression threatened to settle. Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his comrades had initially relied on defaming the Union plans as politically and legally delicate. What was missing: Own impulses that go beyond “enforcement deficits” with the authorities. The SPD is now working on the counter -narrative. On Monday morning, mind you three days after the Merz advance, the party executive made a decision on which one is “consistently responsible for security in Germany”. What is supposed to suggest is a balancing act.

The “many far -reaching measures”, which were taken under Scholz ‘leadership in migration policy, are defended as effective: the asylum requests have dropped, the deportations have increased. At the same time, the SPD leadership wants to avoid the impression of not being ready for new measures in the shadow of Aschaffenburg. “Should legislative gaps arise in the course of the Enlightenment,” says the decision, “we will close them.” It continues spongy: “everything” will be done to ensure that the security authorities prevent such acts in the future. “We will consistently take further steps.” However, additional tightening in migration policy is not required in the decision.

Instead, the Social Democrats urge the implementation of the rights already made. Some of them are to be put to vote in the Bundestag this week, it is said. Then the CDU and CSU should also behave. Whether the points make it on the agenda of parliament also depends on the Union, which could block here. The parliamentary group managers of all parties are currently having the program for the current week, on Tuesday it should be.

“We can still conclude open points of the security package this week, which the Union has so far blocked,” says Dirk Wiese, deputy SPD parliamentary group leader, the star. In addition, the Federal Police Act is on the table, and the national implementation of European refugee rules (GEAS) can also be started.

“That would actually change something,” says Wiese. The Union could then see whether it actually wanted to make a difference or stick to its “shop window policy without consequences”. Her suggestions are incompatible with the constitution and European law, Wiese criticizes that they would quickly collect from courts. “The SPD cannot be put under pressure from the Union.”

If in doubt, the comrades want to get it. Matthias Miersch, the SPD general secretary, gave the tone after the party’s meeting.

Against the applications of the Union, one will not proceed “procedural terms”, said Miersch in the Berlin party headquarters, so they do not pull them out of circulation prematurely. If Merz wants to make his suggestions for voting, then he should do that – and show the public that he does the “taboo break”. It sounds like: Should the Union run into the trap it put.

“Whoever does the AfD, the Weidels, Höckes and Co. in his house will not get it out of this house,” said Miersch. The SPD sets a “clear stop signal” that social cohesion should not be questioned even on “difficult occasions”. Miersch does not see a basis for a compromise in the Union suggestions. The SPD therefore makes counter -proposals within the framework of its own parliamentary possibilities.

With the fight against right, the SPD has always tried to mobilize its electorate, but this should hardly make up for the deficit to the Union – depending on the elevation of 16 to 17 percentage points. This course had hardly drawn in the European elections. And behind the hand, it was clear that Merz had hit a nerve among the population with his full -bodied maneuver. There is: results are expected, not necessarily “brand wall” debates. According to a current INSA survey for the “Bild” newspaper, even a majority of the SPD voters (56 percent) can gather behind Merz ‘proposal to reject migrants without papers and asylum seekers at all German borders.

The SPD therefore also tries to revive Olaf Scholz as a chancellor who does not do daring experiments, especially not with right -wing populist forces.

“Friedrich Merz is again noticeable through impulsiveness and a lot of poetry without a substance,” says Katja Mast, the first parliamentary managing director of the SPD parliamentary group, the star. Instead of “blowing up”, the Union should not stand in the way of the SPD’s proposals, the SPD parliamentary manager demands. “We want a European solution. Europe is the key.”

Scholz should also start this sound himself if he is expected to make a government declaration in the Bundestag on Wednesday afternoon. This agenda item is currently still being coordinated.