SPD boss Esken: Merz “disqualified” as a candidate for chancellor

The SPD party chairman Saskia Esken sees Friedrich Merz as a candidate for chancellor along the entire line after the Union’s Migration Act was rejected in the Bundestag. “As a candidate for chancellor, Friedrich Merz has finally disqualified himself,” said Esken star. “With his uncompromising manner, he doesn’t even manage to unite his own faction.”

The Bundestag had also rejected the law of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group to limit migration on Friday evening due to possible support from the AfD. SPD and Greens had previously rejected a compromise proposal.

“Friedrich Merz put everything on one card and failed terrific,” said the SPD chairman. The consequences of his “staged taboo break” to bring the “fire wall to the AfD to collapse” brought tens of thousands of people onto the street.

According to the Bundestag administration’s voting protocol, 184 yes and no votes were given in the Union faction, while twelve of their MPs stayed away. Two FDP MPs voted no, five abstained and 16 stayed away from the vote. There were 67 votes against the liberals for the draft. The right -wing populist AfD approved with 75 votes. Seven votes in votes and five yes votes from the alliance Sahra Wagenknecht also came from the without a parliamentary group. SPD, the Greens and the Left voted against the draft law.

From the point of view of the SPD chairpersons, the vote left lasting traces. “Friedrich Merz did a common thing with the AfD and caused great damage,” criticized Esken. He was to blame for it all by himself. “Without need, he opened the right -wing radicals in the Bundestag door. The image damage that Merz Germany had added to the world was great.