The proposal received the support of the far right -wing AfD party.
The German Parliament called on Wednesday the government to strictly limit migration and refuse to enter the country at a larger number of asylum seekers. The proposal of opposition Christian Democrats (CDU), with the support of the far right -wing party, went through an alternative for Germany (AfD). According to AFP and DPA, TASR reports this.
The adopted proposal is not binding, so the government does not have to act. The second CDU proposal for reforms of migration policy reforms in order to strengthen the restrictions and to provide greater powers to security authorities in the Federal Assembly.
The vote was controversial because the opposition leader and CDU chairman Friedrich Merz, whose election surveys attribute the office of office after the early early elections in February, expressed his willingness to accept AfD support for his plans. According to AFP, this has broken a long -standing taboo, because so far cooperation with anti -immigration AfD has been rejected by all parliamentary parties.
348 deputies voted in favor of the government’s request and 345 was against. In the debate before the vote, in addition to the CDU/CSU conservative block, he was also supported by FDP liberals and some independent deputies. Against left -wing populists from the new side of BSW, Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the Left Party.
The second proposal for reform of migration policy did not receive the majority of votes
The second proposal requested extensive reforms received 190 votes and 509 was against. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) in a stormy parliamentary debate criticized Merza as a “gambling”, who cannot therefore be trusted in the event of the Federal Office. He described the adoption of support from the far right as a “unforgivable mistake”. At the same time, he defended the right to asylum as an integral part of the German legal system and values.
Merz submitted his suggestions after a series of attacks committed by foreigners. The CDU/CSU coalition leads in pre -election surveys, and Merz promised that if he becomes an office, it will ban entrance to Germany to all illegal immigrants. Some Merza critics expect a violation of his promise not to close the coalition after the elections. Parliamentary elections will take place in Germany on 23 February.
