{"id":536,"date":"2025-01-24T20:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T21:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=536"},"modified":"2025-01-24T21:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T21:25:47","slug":"german-conservatives-ally-with-right-wing-on-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/german-conservatives-ally-with-right-wing-on-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"German conservatives ally with right-wing on migration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CDU and AfD will vote together on immigration restriction, both parties have said<\/strong><\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has said that it will implement strict immigration laws even if it has to enlist the support of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) to pass them. The move marks the first time a mainstream German party has agreed to work with the AfD.<\/p>\n

In a letter to party members seen by Politico on Friday, CDU leadership said that its lawmakers would introduce harsh immigration restrictions even \u201cif only the AfD supports our proposals.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe will introduce motions in the German Bundestag [Parliament] that are exclusively in line with our convictions,\u201d<\/em> CDU leader Friedrich Merz told German news agency DPA later on Friday. \u201cAnd we will introduce them regardless of who agrees with them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Since the AfD\u2019s founding in 2013, the country\u2019s mainstream parties have maintained a \u2018firewall\u2019 around the right-wingers, refusing to enter coalition talks with them and declining to introduce legislation that could only pass with their support.<\/p>\n

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However, German attitudes to immigration have hardened since former CDU leader and Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Germany\u2019s borders to more than a million migrants in 2015, and the AfD is now the country\u2019s second-most-popular party. Ahead of a general election next month, the AfD is polling at 20%, behind the CDU at 30% but ahead of Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2019s Social Democrats (SDP) at 17%, according to Politico.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Merz is expected to assume the chancellorship after the election. A recent survey found that Immigration is the top concern among voters. After an Afghan man allegedly stabbed a two-year-old child to death at a Bavarian school earlier this week, AfD leader Alice Weidel wrote to Merz offering to back any immigration restrictions proposed by his party.<\/p>\n

\u201dThe firewall has fallen!\u201d<\/em> Weidel wrote on X on Friday. \u201cThe CDU and CSU have accepted my offer to vote together with the AfD in the Bundestag on the crucial issue of migration. This is good news for our country!\u201d<\/em> she added, referring to the CDU\u2019s Bavarian sister party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The CDU and AfD will vote together on immigration restriction, both parties have said Germany\u2019s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has said that it will implement strict immigration laws even if it has to enlist the support of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) to pass them. The move marks the first time a mainstream…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}