The social democratic and conservative candidates for the general elections of next Sunday in Germany, Olaf Scholz and Friedrich Merz, respectively, collided this Sunday on irregular immigration in the country, but coincided in their frontal attack on the ultra -right and reaffirming the validity From health cordon to alternative for Germany (AFD).
Scholz, of the Social Democratic Party, third in voting intention surveys, and Merz, a common candidate for the block formed by the Christian -democratic union (CDU) and her sister Bávara SocialCristian Union (CSU), first in the polls, faced for the second time for the second time On a television set from last Sunday’s debate. But this time the AFD leader, Alice Weidel, whose party occupies second place in the surveys, and environmentalist Robert Habeck, fourth with the green, which is the first debate to four in the history of the history of the history of the German television
But this time the AFD leader, Alice Weidel, whose party occupies second place in the surveys, and environmentalist Robert Habeck, fourth with the green, which is the first debate to four bands face to face were also invited. The history of German television. A week after the elections and when the surveys have barely move for weeks, the four candidates want to attract the votes of the undecided, since no force would get a majority to govern alone.
Already at the beginning of the debate, Merz, who was criticized by Scholz for having achieved in Parliament to approve a non -binding motion for the first time with the support of the AFD and have tried to do the same with a bill, he found the defensive .
Sanitary Laces and Vipers
The conservative, whose proceeding has raised mass protests in Germany, reiterated that “will keep the” viper “of the AFD as he has once described the outraged, and said that” we will not work together with this game. ” He ruled out the Austrian scenario, stating that he will do “everything he can to prevent that from happening”, that AFD becomes the first force as the ultra -rightist FPö in the neighboring country, even if the US vice president, JD Vance, He believes that “alternative voices” should not be excluded in Europe, in reference to the extreme right. “I will not allow an American vice president to tell me who I have to talk here in Germany, “Merz emphasized.
Scholz, who also said that “there will be no collaboration with the ultra -right,” Vance’s behavior “unacceptable” again, which even advocated to eliminate health cords to the outraged. The Foreign Minister reiterated that an AFD representative described as “bird shit” the National Socialism and its crimes against humanity in World War II, something that Weidel described as “scandalous.”
Merz interrupted her to express her outrage at an interview at the newspaper ‘Bild’, the most read in Germany, in which the ultra -rightist leader said he could imagine that the head of the AFD in the federated state of Turingia, Björn Höcke, could be potentially a minister. “Everyone can legally call him Nazi,” recalled the conservative, referring to the fact that the German Constitution Protection Office has classified the Höcke regional subsidiary of the extreme right.
No less blows were the candidates related to migration, a natural issue of the AFD and after the recent attacks at the hands of asylum applicants in the country, also one of the main issues of the electoral agenda of the other parties, especially of the CDU.
Deportations and talk to the Taliban
Merz threw Scholz again that in “four days they arrive as many new irregular immigrants to the country as deportations are in a month.” Scholz stressed that last year the illegal arrivals were reduced in 100,000 people and this year there will be another similar decrease, while assuring that there were a 70 % increase in deportations during its three years of mandate.
After the outrage last Thursday in Munich committed by an Afghan, Merz said that the German government is the only one in Europe that still accepts refugees from Afghanistan and that, to change this you may have to talk to the Taliban. Scholz replied that there was already a deportation flight to the Central Asian country and that there will be another in the future.
This issue was one of the few in which Habeck reacted energetically, reminding Merz that the Taliban are “a terror regime” and that the “small contingents” of refugees who arrive are people who helped Germany at the time.
Weidel in turn promised to “stop illegal immigration” through consistent controls 24 hours a day of borders and equally constant deportation of “criminals and illegal in this country.” Of course, he did not know how and with which staff he intends to “protect” about 4,000 kilometers of borders.
