Berlin (AP)-Tens of thousands of people went down to the streets of Germany on weekends to protest against the chief of the center-right and the leading front during a February 25 election for having sent Proposals from the Parliament for the new difficult migration rules that have received the support of a Far -right party.
Angry Protesters in Hamburg, Munich, Cologne and Leipzig Said that Friedrich Merz and His Christian Democrats Broke Germany’s Unwriten Post-Nazi Promise by all democratic parties to Never Pass Any Rule or Resolution in Parliament with the Support of Far-Right, Nationalist parts Such as The alternative for Germany, or AFD.
Merz Wednesday proposed a non-binding request to Parliament calling for Germany to turn around many migrants at its borders. The measure has climbed thanks to the support of AFD.
Merz was determined to show his commitment to his Central Union block, which also includes the CSU party only in Bavaria, at Cut irregular migration After a mortal knife attack Last month by a rejected asylum seeker.
However, Friday, the The German Parliament narrowly rejected a bill Call more difficult rules on migration that have risked becoming the first bill to adopt thanks to a far right game. Nevertheless, it has become an objective of controversy on the attitude towards the far right of the first row in the next elections.
Merz was accused by demonstrators and politicians on the left of breaking a taboo and endangering the “firewall” of traditional AFD parties. He insists that his position is unchanged and that he did not work and will not work with the party.
Hundreds of demonstrators have temporarily blocked the offices of Christian Democrats in different cities and Sunday afternoon up to 20,000 people gathered for a large gathering in Berlin.
In Cologne, people protested 350 boats on the Rhine, reported the German news agency DPA. The boats aligned themselves in front of the city’s horizon with its famous cathedral with demonstrators holding banners with slogans such as “no racism” and “for democracy and diversity”.
The surveys show the central right union, which presented the migration proposal and the bill, leading with support of around 30%, while AFD is second with around 20% and the social democrats and the Greens below.
Merz seems to hope that he will obtain support by making the union decisive by forcing a more difficult approach to migration, while blurring the appeal of anti -immigration AFD and by doing the guiding parties – who say they have Already done a lot to tackle the question – look out of contact with the concerns of the Germans.
The 12 -year -old AFD entered the National Parliament for the first time in 2017, benefiting from the decision of the Chancellor of the Angela Merkel era two years earlier to allow the large number of migrants in the country.
A year ago, hundreds of thousands also protested In rallies of several weeks throughout Germany against the rise of the far right and allegedly plans to expel millions of immigrants, including some of German passports.
