A controversial draft migration act rejected in Germany

350 MPs voted against the act SPD and green. 338 CDU deputies, CSU, followed the project, FDP and AfD. Five parliamentarians abstained. Some CDU/CSU and FDP deputies did not vote.

– A return in asylum policy crashed on the attitude of SPD and green. We have at least clarity where we stand, and where SPD and Greens – said Friedrich Merz after the vote. He also admitted that twelve members of his club did not support the law, which he “respects”. Then the head of the CDU announced that he would continue the fight to tighten the immigration law in the parliament elected in the election of February 23 this year.

The head of the SPD Rolf Metzenich club, however, assessed that “Merz lost twice today”. – he lost, fraternizing from the AfD. He also lost, seeking most in the Bundestag – he explained. He added that “voters will decide whether such a candidate can be entrusted with the fate of our country.”

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On Wednesday At the initiative of Merz Bundestag, he adopted a resolution announcing the introduction of permanent controls on German state borders and turning from the border of people without documents entitling to enter the area Germaneven when they ask for asylum. The conclusion of CDU/CSU obtained the majority thanks to the votes of the right-wing-populist alternative to Germany (AFD). At that time, SPD and Greens considered it a “taboo fracture”, while the Minister of Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock She called the interruption of the “sanitary cordon” (isolating a given party or politician by the largest groups – ed.) Shame.

The behavior of the head of the CDU, who won the majority in voting thanks to the support of the AfD, criticized the former Chancellor Angela Merkel. Both largest churches – Catholic and Evangelical and the Central Council of Jews in Germany – also expressed disapproval. The reservations were also raised by some CDU and CSU deputies, and protests took place in front of the party's seat in Berlin.

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To avoid making the result of voting to the attitude of AFD, the FDP club proposed to send the bill to the commission. Until the next and the last meeting of the Bundestag meeting in this term of office, on February 11, MPs were to develop a compromise version that would be accepted for all democratic parties. However, over three hours of negotiations did not lead to agreement, and during the debate the parliamentarians of the government coalition and opposition accused each other of lies and bad will.

Shortly before voting, the head of the Green Club Katharina Droege proposed unexpectedly sending the project to the commission, but CDU/CSU and FDP recognized this step as an insincere maneuver. “You don't want to solve the problems,” said Thorsten Frey (CDU). According to FDP MP Christian Duerra, “the goals were to prevent the result from achieving the result.”

Friedrich Merz is the leader of the race to the Chancellor's chair, and his block of Christian Democrats CDU/CSU definitely leads to polls With support within 30 percent, while the SPD of Chancellor Olaf Scholz can count on half the lower support.

Aiming to tighten my immigration law, Merz wanted to increase support from the conservative electorate at the end of the election campaign and pick up the votes of AfD. It was an excuse A recent attack of a cutter from Afghanistanwho in Aschaffenburg in Bavaria killed a two -year -old child and an intervening man and served two other people hard. “The new situation requires new answers,” Merz said after voting, accusing the part of the ruling coalition that after each subsequent assassination “they are limited to regrets.”

Surveys show that Merz's proposals enjoy the support of the majority of German society. 56 percent of respondents support permanent controls on the borders, and 63 percent – turning people without valid documents – according to the Politbaromist survey published on Thursday. However, participants of the survey believe that peace, safety and economy are more important than the issue of migration.

AFD politicians did not hide their profession due to losing in voting. The chairwoman of the party Alice Weidel said that the result of voting means “dismantling” by Merz. According to her, “a real return in migration policy is only possible from AfD.”. The party can count in elections on the result of 20 percent and in the case of CDU/CSU victory may become the second political force in Germany and the largest opposition party.

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