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Germany’s Parliament descended to hecks and recriminations on Wednesday after a “Firewall” against work with the extreme right.

A non -binding motion that asks for more difficult and asylum rules approved with the support of the extreme right -wing alternative for Germany (AFD). During the stormy session, the politicians of several parties showed criticism and blamed each other.

The conservative leader of CDU, Friedrich Merz, who presented the plans, defended his actions as “necessary.” But Foreign Minister Olaf Scholz criticized the movement as an “unforgivable error.”

Merz now plans to propose real legislation on Friday, again with a possible support of AFD, aimed at curbing immigration numbers and family reunion rights.

But it is unlikely that its proposed measures will enter this side of the complementary elections of February and, if they did, they could collide with the EU law.

Referring to the support of the AFD to the motion, the CDU leader told The Bundestag that a policy was not bad just because the “wrong people support it.”

“How many other children have to become victims of such acts of violence before you also believe that there is a threat to public security and order?” asked.

The leader of the CDU, with a tip to be the next Chancellor of Germany due to the leadership position of his party in the surveys, has not insisted that he has not searched or wants to support AFD.

“Thinking about how AFD’s fraction will be encouraged and his happy faces makes me feel uncomfortable,” he told legislators.

Foreign Minister Scholz, a social democrat whose coalition government collapsed last year, punished Merz for his actions.

“Since the Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany more than 75 years ago, there has always been a clear consensus among all Democrats in our parliaments: we do not make a common cause with the extreme right.”

Germany’s debate about immigration has increased after a series of fatal attacks where the suspect is an asylum applicant, more recently in the city of Aschaffenburg.

It has become a central theme in the campaign for elections, caused by the collapse of the Scholz government coalition.

Wednesday’s CDU motion, backed by AFD and Liberal FDP, requested a “prohibition” of any person entering Germany without the right documents, but cannot force the current minority government to act.

It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of Firewall against the extreme right of German political culture. The memory of the Holocaust plays a fundamental role in modern Germany.

Before Wednesday’s vote, Bundestag celebrated its annual commemoration for the victims of the Nazis, during which the survivor of the 88 -year -old Holocaust, Roman Schwarzmann, went to Parliament.

The German president, Frank-Walter, Steinmeier, also pronounced a speech to parliamentarians, asking that Nazis’s crimes never forget. There should be no “drawn line” that ends our historical responsibility as Germans, he said.

This directly contradicts the AFD policy, which has criticized the culture of German memory and has defended a broader vision of the country’s history.

That is partly the reason why so many were surprised when Friedrich Merz said last week that he didn’t care if AFD supported his parliamentary movements or not.

This contradicts not only his previous statements, but also the official line of his party, which prohibits conservatives from trusting the extreme right of parliamentary votes.

The AFD sections have been classified as right -wing extremists by national intelligence, but the party is currently surveying in second place, although Merz has ruled out any type of coalition with them.

This week, the last surveys showed that support for the conservative CDU had passed a couple of percentage points to 28%, while the AFD increased slightly to 20%.

AFD leader Alice Weidel said the Firewall is equivalent to an “antidemocratic poster agreement” and has predicted that will fall apart in the coming years.

Opening the door to rely on the support of the extreme right is a bet for Merz, who believes that his increasingly radical position on migration will recover the rightists who are tempted to vote for the AFD.

But in doing so, it could risk losing the support of the center.

With these last parliamentary movements, Merz has definitely said goodbye to the era of his most centrist conservative predecessor, Angela Merkel, who a decade ago said “Wir Schaffen das” or “We can do it” when Germany faced a large number of migrants and refugees.

These movements are symbolic, indicating what conservatives would like to do in power. But they are also a specific signal for voters about who Merz seems prepared to accept support.

Critics say he has broken his word in the Firewall. It is not surprising that the AFD would cheer in Parliament when the result was announced.