Election campaign: Söder sees credibility of the Union “fundamentally increased”

CSU boss Markus Söder sees the position of the Union significantly strengthened after the controversial votes on migration policy in the Bundestag. The procedure “fundamentally increased the credibility,” said the Bavarian Prime Minister in the evening in the ZDF program “Berlin Directors”.

For many years, citizens have no longer believed that something was happening in Germany against the limitation of illegal migration. “This week, the Union made it clear that it was serious. And this also increases the credibility of a new Chancellor Friedrich Merz enormously,” said Söder.

CDU boss and Union Chancellor Merz are criticized because he accepted in the Bundestag on Wednesday that his five-point plan for migration only got a majority with the help of the AfD. In contrast, tens of thousands of people across Germany took to the streets in protest.

Söder assured that the fire wall for the AfD is “harder than ever”. The party is not fought with refusal to work. “We will only make it stronger. We go the opposite way. We make it clear when two thirds of the population expect politics to limit migration and that criminals have to leave the country, then we do that.”

“Black and green just because of the migration question really dead”

The CSU boss believed that the cause of the advance of right-wing populists in other European countries is above all that the democratic center had no strength. “That’s why we have to do the opposite.” You couldn’t rely on the Greens. “For me, black-green is really dead because of the migration question.” He could only appeal to the SPD to finally listen to its own basis. “Because that also wants a limitation of migration.”