Election campaign: Dispute of the smaller ones about positions on asylum

Focus on migration: A talent group of six smaller parties a good two weeks before the Bundestag election was also determined by immigration and flight. Apparently irreconcilable reforms crashed into the defense of already adopted reforms in the ZDF program “Capping Exchange”. According to their tips, the economy and social are also concerned with the represented smaller parties – as it became clear to the question of the most pressing topic immediately after the election.

The dispute of the smaller about asylum

In view of the dispute over asylum, FDP chairman Christian Lindner proposed a “cross-party shoulder closure” without and against the AfD. Union positions should be incorporated into a red-green bill. So you can make the AfD small. “The AfD will not be made small with fairy lights,” added Lindner to the address of Greens boss Felix Banaszak. “The AfD is only made small by making problems that once made this party great.”

Banaszak replied: “Above all, the AfD is not small by taking over the stories and the narrative that this party has been driving through the country for years.” The Greens boss thus criticized claims for a sharper asylum course among other parties. Last week, the Union had only implemented a Bundestag decision for a harder migration course with votes from the AfD. The majority of the FDP MPs also voted for the application. A CDU/CSU law draft to limit migration then failed in parliament.

Greens boss defends Chancellor candidate

A controversial migration paper by Greens Chancellor candidate Robert Habeck was defended by the party leader. It is identified that the Greens are trying to differentiate. Habeck had asked for more deportations in a “security offensive”. Banaszak said the migration debate belonged to “out of the escalation”. Germany not only needs foreign specialists, but can also accept people “who are looking for protection because they flee from hunger, from threats”.

Banaszak opposed the position that the asylum system had to be completely new. He referred to the European asylum system, which was decided by the EU members last spring after years of negotiations and is to apply from 2026.

Parties warn of growing overwhelming

BSW founder Sahra Wagenknecht, in turn, referred to the Basic Law, which only grants the claim to asylum that does not come from a safe third country. According to the EU-wide so-called Dublin procedure, the European country is usually responsible for a refugee, through which it entered the EU. Wagenknecht said this principle could only deny privileged people who were not affected. Because the systems for health care or public security are overwhelmed.

Lindner, AfD boss Tino Chrupalla and CSU state group leader Alexander Dobrindt also complained about the excess of many municipalities in immigration. Wagenknecht cited the housing market as an example: “Every new social housing is more of a immigrant family. This is a really tough situation for the people who need a social housing.” From the perspective of the left-wing chairman Jan van Aken, however, the overwhelming is due to the fact that the municipalities have been “broken”.

Dobrindt: Illegal migration noticeable everywhere in everyday life

Dobrindt said: “We are a cosmopolitan country.” But for those who did not want to be part of society, they must be able to say: “You have to leave this country again.” According to the CSU politician – the reality of people is constantly confronted with illegal migration – “in kindergarten, at school, at the train station, on the market square”. The numbers are too high.

Wagenknecht said in alluding to Aschaffenburg’s fatal knife attack, “terrible things” because the number of refugees coming after Germany was too high.

Exchange of blows Wagenknecht – van Aken

Wagenknecht and the boss of her former party Die Linke met with the left. Van Aken said: “In Germany, over 21 million people live with a history of migration. If they watch here, ask themselves: Is that still the country in which I can live?” The left -wing politician told his own friends with foreign roots that were unsettled – they said: “All kinds of migration.” Van Aken accused his competitor to create a Kiima of uncertainty for millions.

Wagenknecht replied that the real problem was “this talking away of what people real see in their lives in problems and experience every day”. Wagenknecht: “The thesis that the debate about migration is responsible for the fact that there are problems, that is so absurd.” Whoever speech this way live “beyond the reality of people”.

And what do the parties want for the economy?

With social policy and the economy, two other fields were also discussed in more detail. When asked about the topic that “on day one after the election”, Lindner called an economic transition. Because for everything else, a stable economic foundation is needed. Dobrindt was also more economical competitiveness in his core concerns.

For Banaszak, these were investments in infrastructure, schools and daycare centers and climate protection. AfD boss Tino Chrupalla focused on the fact that energy prices had to be reduced and, for example, named Russian gas and nuclear energy as a means. Van Aken put a rental cover forward, because rents were the “big social problem of our time”.

Foreign policy was also touched. Instead of spending money on “more and more weapons”, this is needed for schools, hospitals, pensions, said Wagenknecht. Chrupalla called for diplomatic efforts against Russia’s war in Ukraine and generally a peace policy.

And next follows the duel

Finally, moderator Andreas Wunn said that he was quite successful in keeping the round in check. On Sunday – two weeks before the election – Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Union Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz will meet at ARD and ZDF in 90 minutes. Then it says: “The TV duel – Scholz against Merz”.