Migration policy: SPD: Merz breaks agreement on how to deal with AfD

In the struggle for migration policy and dealing with the AfD, the SPD Union Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz (CDU) accuses the break of an agreement. “After the end of the traffic light coalition, we had agreed that there should be no majorities with the help of the AfD. Now he doesn’t care again,” said SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich of the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” (Tuesday). The occasion is Merz ‘announcement to bring in applications for a sharp migration policy in the Bundestag this week – regardless of whether the AfD may also agree.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) accused the Union to propose “the factual abolition” of fundamental rights to asylum with the demand for rejection of all people without an entry permit, including asylum seekers. “This is unconstitutional and does not simply have a decree,” he told the “Saarbrücker Zeitung” (Tuesday).

Tactics of the SPD: urge to consent to your own projects

Mützenich called on Merz to help government designs to help a majority in the Bundestag this week that could immediately bring improvements. Specifically, it is about:

The reform of the common European asylum system (GEAS) – SPD and Greens would need the Union for a majority. It is planned, for example, that a significant part of the asylum applications have already been decided on the EU external borders. In Germany, the procedures could be handled directly at the airports. A security package with more powers for the BKA and a reform package for the federal police with an expansion of the skills could still be decided this week.

“We can set a clear sign this week. And I ask all democratic political groups to take a way to move into a European law,” said Mützenich.

Tactics of the SPD, Part 2: Development of the AfD vote

The SPD Minister President calls their colleagues in the other countries to a clear delimitation from the AfD. “The fire wall between democratic and undemocratic parties must not falter,” write the seven state bosses in a letter that is available to the German Press Agency. Unfortunately, this had long happened on the local level. “This development must not continue at state or federal level,” the SPD politicians demand.

Union tactics: urge to consent to your own projects

In turn, the Union urges SPD and the Greens to agree to their applications – then the AfD’s voting behavior would also be irrelevant. Her parliamentary managing director Thorsten Frei (CDU) recalled the recent killing cases in which foreigners are suspected. “After Solingen, Magdeburg and Aschaffenburg, it is clear to us that the limit of the reasonable has long been exceeded,” he told Germany. “Compromises are no longer portable. Now it is due to the SPD to take a clear position.”

The parliamentary group leader Andrea Lindholz (CSU) called on the SPD and Greens to deal with the proposals – instead of focusing on the possible approval of the AfD. “The fire wall debate is a pure distraction maneuver,” she told the German Press Agency. “In recent years, the Union has not closed to a superior importance.” The SPD also approved the suspension of the family reunification for subsidiary protectionists – from March 2016 to July 2018.

The Union demands in its applications:

Permanent border controls and the rejection without exception of all attempts of an illegal entry – regardless of an asylum application, deportation for the federal states more support for the federal states in the execution of the obligation to travel, a sharper right of residence for criminals and so -called hazard law did not work primarily if EU regulations did not work – like it is intended for “extraordinary emergencies”

In addition, the Union wants to achieve a Bundestag vote on the so -called influx limitation law already brought in by it, which should be difficult to enforce.

Are compromises possible?

North Rhine-Westphalia’s CDU Interior Minister Herbert Reul struck cooperative tones. In the special Interior Ministers’ Conference of Monday, the Union and SPD countries agreed that a limitation of migration-just not about the concrete methods, he told ZDF “today Journal Update” and promoted “that the Show bourgeois forces you can, and that we prove that we don’t need the AfD “. “About the details” you have to talk. But: “There is still a little time until Wednesday.”

What was the reason for the debate

The starting point was the knife attack of Aschaffenburg. On Wednesday, a Afghan, who is subject to an departure, had stabbed a two -year -old boy and a man in an interview on Wednesday and injured two other people. The crime was preceded by a number of other attacks, in which foreigners are also suspected. Then Merz drew up. In the ongoing Bundestag election campaign, the debate is now carried out with special hardness.