Union Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz is sticking to Bundestag proposals for a tougher migration policy despite sharp criticism from the SPD and the Greenseven if the AfD agrees. “I will go through the German Bundestag very consistently this week with the issues that we have and which have acquired a new urgency since Wednesday last week,” said the CDU chairman after hybrid discussions with the party leadership in Berlin in view of the knife attack two dead in Aschaffenburg.
“We will not allow ourselves to be told by either the Social Democrats or the Greens, and certainly not by the AfD, which motions and which bills we will put to the vote in the German Bundestag.”said Merz. He added: “What is right in the matter does not become wrong because the wrong people agree. This clear positioning remains.” When it comes to the corresponding votes, “it is up to the SPD, the Greens and the FDP to prevent majorities from emerging that none of us want.”
