Bundestag election campaign
Showdown in the Bundestag for migration – vote on Union plans
After the knife attack by Aschaffenburg, dealing with migration has moved into the focus of the election campaign. The topic also dominates the last complete week of session of the Bundestag.
A week after the knife attack by Aschaffenburg with two deaths, there are tough debates and votes on a stricter migration policy in the Bundestag (from 2:15 p.m.). The Union wants to make two applications for the name. Previously, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) wants to submit a government statement. The SPD and the Greens urgently warned the Union and its candidate for chancellor to do a common cause with the AfD. This had announced that the applications and a draft law, which will be vote on Friday, agree.
What was the trigger for the new migration debate?
An apparently mentally ill man from Afghanistan killed a two -year -old boy with Moroccan roots from a kindergarten group with a knife on Wednesday last week. A 41 -year -old family man who stood between the attacker and children also died. Other people were seriously injured, including a two -year -old girl of Syrian descent. The 28 -year -old attacker was subject to departure, he is in a psychiatric facility. The crime was preceded by a number of other attacks, in which foreigners are also suspected.
What exactly should be coordinated in the Bundestag?
An application revolves around the five-point plan presented by Union faction leader Friedrich Merz. Permanent border controls to all neighboring countries are required, an entry ban for all people without valid entry documents, even if they express a protective application. Persons obliged to leave are to be detained and deportations should be made every day. The federal government is intended to support the federal states in the execution of the obligation to leave – federal exit centers are to be created. Criminals and dangers subject to leave should remain in an indefinite exit arrest until they can voluntarily return to their home country or the deportation can be carried out.
The second application is entitled “for a change of policy in internal security”. The Union faction lists 27 points here, such as minimum storage periods for IP addresses, more technical powers for investigators, for example for electronic facial recognition, an improved data exchange between the security authorities, strengthening the intelligence services as well as tougher punishments for attacks on police officers, emergency services and helpers.
Finally, on Friday, the Union Group’s so -called influx limitation law is on the final vote. Among other things, the new regulation is intended to end family reunification to refugees with limited protection status. If it meets the area of responsibility, the federal police should carry out residence -related measures.
What are the chances of voting?
Should there be no MPs that contain or are not present at the CDU/CSU, FDP, AfD and BSW in the end, there would be 372 votes when voting on the bill. The Bundestag currently has 733 MPs. So it would be enough. If not all MPs of these parties vote yes, it might be due to the voting behavior of the nine without a faction. Most of them used to belong to the AfD parliamentary group.
SPD, the Greens and Leftists do not have any of the three projects. The AfD, on the other hand, wants to agree to them, despite critical AfD passages in the two applications.
The easiest could be for the bill on Friday. In addition to Union, AfD, FDP and BSW also want to agree.
AfD and FDP want to support the five-point plan. From BSW founder Sahra Wagenknecht, on the other hand, it said yesterday that, according to the current status, she would “not assume approval” – this was still open, added a party spokeswoman. The second application for security policy is approved by the Union and AfD, but not from FDP and BSW.
Urgent warnings from Scholz and Habeck
Even if the applications came through on Wednesday, they would only have an appellatory character. Chancellor Scholz said last night at an election campaign event in Berlin that they would “do nothing at first”. It is all the more “outrageous” that, contrary to earlier statements, the Union accepts that a majority only come about with votes from the AfD, said the SPD candidate for chancellor. Scholz also warned of a black and blue majority in the Bundestag after the election.
SPD boss Lars Klingbeil said in the ZDF program “How are Germany?”, He was “dismayed” that probably for the first time in the history of the State of Union and AfD in parliament. “That will change our country,” said Klingbeil.
“Don’t do it, Mr. Merz”
Green Chancellor candidate Robert Habeck appealed to his competitor from the Union via Instagram: “Don’t do it, Mr. Merz.” Habeck spoke of a “scabbard in the political culture of our country”. The Union went into the catch of the AfD. “This behavior is now breaking Europe.”
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) told the newspapers of the Funke media group: “The fact that Friedrich Merz is just in times when Europe actually has to stand together, our European neighbors are massive.”
AfD boss Alice Weidel, on the other hand, sees the Union on a line. In the ZDF program “How are Germany?”, She said that the application was “written off from the AfD with five points” and contained demands that her party had brought for years.
Backing for Merz ‘procedure – no collaboration with AfD
The CDU’s vice boss, Karin Prien, defended her party leader. “I am on the side of Friedrich Merz,” said Prien, who belongs to the party’s liberal camp, the “star”. “Only if a center-right party how the CDU gets the migration problem in Germany can be solved, can the erosion of our democracy and the rise of radical forces avert,” she said.
CDU General Secretary Carsten Linnemann told the “Rheinische Post” that the country needs a “U-turn in migration policy” and, above all, a stop of illegal migration. At the same time, he emphasized: “I will not work with the AfD or your responsible for a second. Otherwise I am no longer here. This also applies to Friedrich Merz.”
CSU boss Markus Söder also defended Merz ‘course and the Union’s approach against criticism of accepting voices for the AfD for a majority. In the Bundestag, it is now about a factually offered decision. “It is also not a collaboration, so no fire wall will fall,” said the Bavarian Prime Minister in the ARD program “Maischberger”.
dpa
Source: Stern
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