Merkel criticizes party leaders for cooperation with the AfD

Von WOM

In Berlin, the former Chancellor Angela Merkel Sharfen her successor friedrich Mer on Thursday. She accused him of enforcing a law to tighten immigration controls with the support of the extreme rights.

criticism of Friedrich Merz

"I think that is wrong", Merkel explained in relation to the result of the result of a rel = "Nofollow" Target = "_ Blank" href = "https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?search=all%3al5n3oo1yq&linkedfromstory=true" Target = "_ blank"> Parliamentary vote on Wednesday, in which an application from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was accepted with votes from the nationalist alternative for Germany (AfD). This broke a political taboo in Germany.

protests by Holocaust survivors

The Holocaust survivor Albrecht Weinberg, who survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, returned its Federal Medal of Ear to the German State as a protest. Michel Friedman, a former CDU President and Jewish community representative of the 1990s, also emerged from the party.

contradiction within the CDU

The Berlin Mayor and CDU colleague Kai Wegener also expressed his discomfort: "With me-you can rely on-there will never be a collaboration or a coalition with the extreme right," he said.

Merkel's appeal to the democratic parties

Friedrich Merz, the main favorite on the Chancellery after the election on February 23, rejected the claim that he broke the "fire protection wall" against the AfD. He emphasized that his law was necessary, regardless of who supported it.

In a rare interference in domestic politics, Merkel accused Merkel Merz of having broken a promise that he had made in November. She had reminded him that he wanted to strive for majorities with the established parties and not with the AfD.

racism and xenophobia in the election campaign

She called on the "democratic parties" to work together to prevent violent attacks such as the recently in Magdeburg and Aschaffenburg. In both cases, the suspicious asylum applications had made in Germany, which put the border and asylum policy at the center of the election campaign.

AfD under observation

The AfD, which is in second place in most surveys behind Merz’s conservative block, is monitored by the German security authorities due to suspicion of right -wing extremist activities.

protests against the CDU

On Thursday, thousands protested in front of the CDU headquarters in Berlin, which prompted the police to ask the employees to go home earlier to ensure their security, as a party representative on social media announced.

response from Merz to the protests

In a demonstration in Dresden, Merz pointed out the protesters that they overreacted. "The right to demonstrate has its limits," he said, adding that the Social Democrats and the Greens under Chancellor Olaf Scholz represented a "dwindling minority" in society. The task of the conservatives is to ensure that "a party like the AfD in Germany is no longer necessary".