Great defeat for the man who is best placed to be the next chancellor
The German Parliament chose the controversial law proposal that provided for a hardening of the migratory policy, in a decision that was not expected, as the CDU project expected to have wide support.
A total of 350 deputies voted against, with 338 votes in favor and five abstentions. There were still 43 deputies who did not vote, which eventually gave the victory to no.
The bill had been filed at the initiative of CDU, the party that leads the opposition, and is the best placed in the polls for the legislatures on 23 February.
The conservative party, once led by Angela Merkel, proposed a hardening of migratory policy.
The vote in the Baixa Chamber was delayed several hours because of a last minute request to reach an appointment. The text, driven by conservatives led by Friedrich Merz, should have the support of liberals, but also with the extremists of the Alternative to Germany (AFD) and the populist left.
According to the German press, a great applause echoed from the FDP room, the Olaf Scholz party that is still in government, and celebrated the lead of this controversial law.
This was a risky bet for Friedrich Merz, who eventually suffers a defeat in Parliament, which can complicate her pretensions for the elections, because AFD is already trying to capitalize on the vote, with the leader, Alice Weidel, to mention that the CDU leader is an “doormat”.
Without knowing the sense of vote of each of the deputies, the door opens so that it was a fragmentation in the CDU itself to lead to this result, which can be seen as a result of the pressure of a strong figure of German policy. It is that Angela Merkel criticized the likely alliance with the far right, which made it sound alarms in the party, which have been divided.
