The German party could trust the extreme right for immigration vote

The man proposed to be the next leader of Germany could trust the support of the extreme right -wing alternative for the Germany (AFD) party for the second time in a week, a movement that has been widely condemned.

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the CDU Conservative Party, may need AFD votes to approve the legislation that hardens immigration laws.

Former Foreign Minister Angela Merkel accused him of turning her back on a previous promise of not working with AFD at Bundestag.

Merz has defended his actions as “necessary” and said he had not sought or wanted the support of AFD.

“A correct decision is not wrong just because the wrong people remember it,” he said.

On Friday morning, the CDU said he had requested a pause before the vote and seemed to be having conversations about whether the legislation should be voted or sent to the committee.

The CDU will lead in the surveys before the Elections to the snapshot of Germany next month. The AFD is currently surveying in second place, although Merz has ruled out any type of coalition with them.

Thousands of people took to the streets of Germany on Thursday night in opposition to the cooperation of the CDU with the extreme right.

While Wednesday’s vote saw a non -binding motion about changes in the immigration law approved by Parliament, real legislation will be presented on Friday with the aim of curbing immigration numbers and family reunion rights.

However, it is unlikely that their proposed measures enter into force on this side of the complementary elections of February and, if they did, they could collide with the EU law.

The proposed legislation opposes parties as the Social Democrats (SPD) of the current Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Scholz is one of those who criticized Merz’s dependence on the AFD, describing him 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.

In his rare intervention in politics, Merkel said he was breaking a promise Made in November to work with the Social Democratic Party and the Greens to approve legislation, not with the AFD. She described the promise as an “expression of great political responsibility of the State.”

Alice Weidel, the AFD leader, meanwhile, accused the main matches on Wednesday of missing the respect to German voters by refusing to work with her party.

The AFD sections have been classified as right -wing extremists by national intelligence.

Wednesday’s vote saw that Germany’s already tense 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, which was triggered by the collapse of the Scholz government coalition.