Ex-chancellor
What Merkel does from Merz
Ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel grants the Union mistakes during the so-called refugee crisis. However, she shows the responsibility for the current high -altitude flight of the AfD.
Former Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) has confirmed her criticism of the UNION Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz (CDU) with the AfD last week. It was “a question of fundamental importance”, said Merkel on Wednesday evening at an event at the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit” in Hamburg. “I really found it not to mention in such a crucial situation,” said Merkel. To CDU boss Merz, she said: “We can both deal with it.”
Angela Merkel considers Friedrich Merz to be wrong
She had found it “correctly” that Merz had also ruled out randomly majorities in the Bundestag with the AfD in November after the breakdown of the traffic light coalition. The reversal of the course in the past week, on the other hand, found her wrong. It should continue to be “not even under difficult conditions” that majorities with the AfD come about, said Merkel.
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The former CDU boss had expressed criticism of the course of Merz last week in one of her rare admissions about the daily policy because he explicitly reserved approval from the AfD to his migration plans. “For the first time in a vote in the German Bundestag, to enable a majority with the votes of the AfD to vote in the German Bundestag,” she considered “wrong,” said Merkel last week.
Merz rejected the criticism and said that the policy of the CDU in the refugee crisis among the then party leader Merkel also led to the strengthening of the AfD. However, Merkel also blamed the dispute between the CDU and CSU in the refugee crisis for the rise of the AfD. “It wasn’t right that we argued so much,” said Merkel.
Rising the AfD “not my responsibility”
Afterwards, the AfD was able to increase through its criticism of the Corona measures. But Merkel also said: “When I went out of office, the AfD was eleven percent. The fact that it is now 20 percent is no longer my responsibility.” Merkel was Chancellor until 2021. About the CDU today she said: “It is my party, although she sometimes causes me pain.”
A good two weeks before the Bundestag election, Merkel also called on the parties to look for talks instead of bitter arguments. After the election, “a state had to be found again in which compromises can be found later,” said Merkel. “I hope that is possible.”
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Source: Stern
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