Merkel comes out against Merz after CDU passes immigration reform with AfD votes

Merkel attacks the leader of the party she formerly led after he cooperates with the AfD

By Remix News Staff
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Former Chancellor Angela Merkel is coming out against CDU party leader Friedrich Merz after he passed a new five-point immigration reform with the support of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in what has been labeled a historic vote.

In a statement published on her website, she wrote that the decision from her former party was “wrong” and said that “for the first time, a majority with the votes of the AfD was achieved in a vote in the German Bundestag.”

Her statement is a direct attack on Merz, and she noted that in his speech on Nov. 13 in the Bundestag, he said that only decisions made with the help of the Greens and the SPD should be brought forward in the plenary session, which would ensure no legislation was passed with the help of the AfD.

She then goes on to quote Merz verbatim:

“For the few remaining decisions that could be possible without a federal budget, I would like to make you a suggestion: We should agree with you, the Social Democrats, and you, the Greens, that we will only put the decisions on the plenary agenda that we have previously agreed on with you from the SPD and the Greens, so that neither in determining the agenda nor in voting on the matter here in the House will there be a single accidental or actually achieved majority with those from the AfD. I would like to expressly propose this agreement to you, ladies and gentlemen. Because that is what these ladies and gentlemen from the far right would like, to suddenly secure the majorities, even if it is with you from the two minority factions in determining the agenda. We do not want that. I hope you see it that way too, dear colleagues.”

Merz is under fire for breaking the “firewall” against the AfD from other parties as well, with some on the left even calling for the CDU to be banned.

Merkel herself has been partially responsible for thousands of rapes, murders, and acts of terrorism due to her decision to open the borders to mass immigration in 2015 and 2016, which has set off a wave of record numbers of non-Europeans entering the country. Even in the early days of her decision, nearly 2,000 women were sexually assaulted across German cities on New Year’s Eve 2015/16, especially in Cologne, mainly by North Africans and Middle Easterners.

Since then, Germany has been beset with a wave of attacks, including the recent Christmas market terror attack in Magdeburg, which security services failed to prevent despite dozens of warnings and multiple investigations into the Saudi doctor. Most recently, the Aschaffenburg, which saw a 2-year-old stabbed to death by an Afghan migrant, has sent shockwaves through Germany.

However, lower profile cases have also dramatically altered lives across Germany, with foreigners now accounting for a record high share of violent crimes in the country as of 2023. Some of the victims and their family have openly spoken out against mass immigration and a lack of security.

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