Asylum: Merz pulls through – and rummages the CDU

Friedrich Merz can’t go back, he doesn’t want to go back. He now needs “freedom to make decisions,” said Union’s candidate for Chancellor, according to participants at an internal meeting of the CDU federal executive board on Monday morning. The “absolute unity” of the party is now needed for the election success, Merz warned. The drama with which he underlings his new asylum course shows how delicate the situation for the Union is.

The five-point plan of the Chancellor candidate, his hard asylum rhetoric, are now to follow acts. It is therefore not with the symbolic asylum applications of the Union in parliament. The Union’s parliamentary group leader after Monday star-Informations behind the proposal of its chairman, also to provide the so -called Union’s so -called inflow limitation law in the Bundestag. And still on Friday of this week. “If you stick to a wasp nest, you have to access properly,” said Merz in reports at the meeting.

The maneuver has become necessary from the union perspective because the AfD had announced that otherwise the law proposed by the Union itself would be to vote. Then the Union should have voted against its own rules. Merz ‘tough course would have been exposed as a pure rhetoric. If a majority for this can be found in the responsible committee and then also in the plenary, the law can probably be passed this week because a first employment had already taken place in September.

Together with the AfD, the FDP and the BSW, the Union has a mathematical majority in the Bundestag, as it may be. All three parties have now announced that the Union’s asylum applications agree. It is still open whether they ultimately also vote for the influx limitation law. In the Union, however, it is considered possible to likely. This could only be teased in the German Bundestag on Friday for the first time in the German Bundestag with the help of the AfD.

The government would be bound by the parliamentary decision. With the law, a suspension of family reunification for refugees entitled to protection would come into force. In addition, the powers of the federal police would be significantly expanded in the event of deportation. In addition, the limitation of migration should be given as a goal in the Residence Act. The traffic light coalition had removed this from the law.

Especially in the Union -led countries, many consider Merz’s course to be a large and, above all, unnecessary risk, even the word “Harakiri”. With its asylum applications, the Union makes concrete promises, the legal and practical feasibility of which is at least doubtful. This was also criticized by country representatives in a presidium meeting on Monday morning. How, for example, should short -term prison places be created for the 40,000 liability for the 40,000?

A prime minister faced Merz: Daniel Günther, the head of government of Schleswig-Holstein. Günther praised Merz for his clear course, also for the content of his five-point plan for the asylum. He should after star-Information also made it clear that he would not agree with an AfD votes in the Federal Council. Some in the round understood this as a warning with a view to his green coalition partner, other than direct criticism of Friedrich Merz.

Günther’s objection could quickly become relevant: The changes to the Asylum Act planned in the Controms Limitation Act would also have to be confirmed by the Federal Council. Günther could be decided there, the law was really decided on Friday with votes from the AfD on Friday. And there are also concerns in the parliamentary group. “Table Media” reports on a meeting of 22 Union MPs on Sunday. There was “unanimous criticism” of Merz ‘risky AfD maneuver.

The board of directors is behind Merz. Possible concerns in the Federal Council are still to be scattered, it is said without the name Günther being mentioned. The board members Tino Sorge from Magdeburg and Andrea Lindholz from Aschaffenburg are said to have reported emotionally and passionate about the consequences of the attacks in their constituencies on Monday. The mood among those present: it is enough. According to participants, criticism came from the Thuringian MP Antje Tillmann. She warned of the consequences of a majority with the AfD, but announced that it would agree to the law on Friday.

Other MPs urgently warned against staying idle. It is about the protection of people in the country against criminals. The authorities are completely overloaded. People in the country would expect decisions. Friedrich Merz brought it to the sentence on Monday morning at a press conference after the meeting of the Federal Executive Board: “The time has now been exceeded when we only make decisions in Germany in Germany.” He hits a nerve with many MPs. “Friedrich Merz shows what Germany urgently needs: Leadership. With his consistent action, Friedrich Merz strengthens the political center,” says Hamburg MP Christoph Ploß.

In the Union it rumbles above all below the surface. Anyone who is now publicly taking criticism can destroy the entire election campaign. It was Jens Spahn who, in the federal executive meeting, was heard most clearly for Friedrich Merz. “Collectors are always right!” He is quoted.