Bundestag: SPD and Greens shaken after coordination, the AfD celebrates

Bundestag: SPD and Greens shaken after coordination, the AfD celebrates

Vote in the Bundestag
SPD and Greens shaken, the AfD celebrates a “historical day”






With the votes of the AfD, the Bundestag accepted an application from CDU/CSU on migration policy. It is a political novelty – the reactions are horrified.

Now it has happened: The Bundestag has accepted the Union’s application to tighten migration policy-most likely with the votes of the AfD MPs. 348 parliamentarians voted for it, 345, on the other hand, ten abstained. A premiere in the Bundestag, which was described by the Greens and the SPD in the previous debate as a break.

The reactions are correspondingly emotionally on the result. Green Co-parliamentary group leader Katharina Dröge said: “In our view, this day is a cut, a turning point for the German Bundestag, for our parliament, but also a black day for our democracy.” Dröge asked CDU boss Friedrich Merz “a promise that he will not repeat something like this in the future”. The SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich said that the Union “broke out of the political center of this house”.

Union brings law to the Bundestag

The parliamentary managing director of the AfD parliamentary group, Bernd Baumann, spoke of a historical moment. “Mr. Merz, you helped bring it out,” Baumann called to the CDU boss. “Now and here a new era begins. Now something new begins. And we lead that, that leads the new forces, these are the forces from the AfD.” Chancellor candidate Alice Weidel called the Union to think about “whether the fire wall, which in our view is undemocratic, continues to keep up.”

Friedrich Merz himself regretted regret that there had been a majority with the votes of the AfD fractions. He is looking for “no other majorities than those in the democratic center of our parliament,” said the CDU Chancellor candidate after the vote. Merz asked the SPD and Greens to talk to the Union on Friday about a common majority for a draft law that the parliamentary group wants to bring in. With the so -called influx limitation law, the CDU/CSU wants to end family reunification to refugees with limited protection status.

“I find it disappointing that the democratic political forces in our country – even in times of the election campaign – were unable to agree on a common procedure and thus prepared this stage for the AfD,” said Josef Schuster, President of the Central Council of the Jews, the star with.

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Source: Stern

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