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The former Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, criticized her own party leader to approve a motion in Parliament with the support of the extreme right alternative for Germany (AFD).
In a statement, Merkel accused CDU leader Friedrich Merz, of turning his back on a previous promise of not working with AFD in the Bundestag.
Parliament descended to Heckles on Wednesday After the votes of the extreme right party meant that a non -binding CDU motion on stricter immigration rules was approved.
This is a very unusual intervention of the woman who directed Germany for 16 years, intervening to criticize the actions of her former political rival.
Merz, who has the tip of being Germany’s next chancellor due to CDU leadership in the surveys, said a policy that a policy was not bad just because the “wrong people supported him” and that he had not sought or wanted to support of AFD.
But Merkel accused him of breaking a promise he made in November to work with the Social Democratic Party and the Greens to approve legislation, not AFD.
This was to guarantee “neither to determine the agenda nor to vote on the matter here in the camera will be chance or the majority will really cause those of the AFD”, Read a Merz appointment in Merkel’s statement.
The former chancellor said that he fully supported this “expression of great political responsibility of the State.”
“I think it is wrong not to feel forced by this proposal and, therefore, to know that AFD wins a majority in a vote in the German Bundestag on January 29, 2025 for the first time.”
She said that “all democratic parties” needed to work together “to do everything possible to avoid such terrible attacks in the future as those that took place shortly before Christmas in Magdeburg and a few days ago in Aschaffenburg.”
This is a rare intervention of Merkel.
Openly criticize the candidate of his own party for the Chancellor, just weeks of a choice, it is a great movement and will add rocket fuel to an already explosive story in German politics.
Merkel and Merz return a long way, and not like best friends.
Merkel was famous in the early 2000s after she won in a CDU power struggle.
Merz would continue to renounce the frontline policy for many years before returning.
Since then, he has criticized Merkel’s legacy, particularly his management of the migration crisis.
They also have very different visions for the party, with Merkel seen as a more pragmatic centrist and merz of the most traditional and conservative wing of the CDU.
Wednesday’s vote broke a long -standing taboo in German politics, and Merz must also propose legislation on Friday that AFD could support.
The current German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, described the movement as an “unforgivable error.”
“From 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,” he said.
