Immigration has been a reason for shock among social democratic and conservative candidates for elections in GermanyOlaf Scholz and Friedrich Merz, in a new electoral debate in which, however, they did coincide in their frontal attack on the ultra -right and in reaffirming the validity of the sanitary cord to Alternative for Germany (AFD).
The current chancellor, third in the surveys, and Merz, a common candidate for the block made up of the Christian -democratic union (CDU) and his sister Bávara Social Cristiana Union (CSU), first in the polls, faced for the second time in this campaign, but this The AFD leader was also invited, Alice Weidelwhose party is second in the surveys, and environmentalist Robert Habeck, fourth with the Greens, in the first Four band debate In the history of German television.
One week after the elections and at a time when Surveys barely move For weeks, the four candidates want to attract the vote of the undecided, since with the panorama they draw right now the polls would obtain a sufficient majority to govern alone.
SANITARY TO AFD AND CRITICISMS TO VANCE
Already at the beginning of this Sunday, Merz, criticized by Scholz for having managed defensive. The conservative, whose procedure has raised Mass protests in Germanyhe reiterated that “It will keep the” viper “of the AFD by. “We will not work together with this game,” he promised.
The candidate ruled out the Austrian scenario, stating that he will ” US Vice President JD Vanceconsider that “alternative voices” should not be excluded in Europe. “I will not allow an American vice president to tell me who I have to talk to Here in Germany, “said Merz.
Scholz, who also assured that “There will be no collaboration with the ultra -right“, He described again as” unacceptable “Vance’s behavior, which even advocated to eliminate health laces to the ultra -right. The chancellor reiterated that an AFD representative described as a” bird shit “the national socialism and their crimes against the Humanity committed in World War II, a comparison that Weidel described as “scandalous.”
Merz interrupted her to express her indignation for an interview in ‘Bild’, the most read newspaper in Germany, in which the ultra -rightist leader said he could imagine that the head of the AFD in the federated state of Turingia, Björn Höcke, could be potentially a minister. “Everyone can legally call him Nazi“The conservative candidate recalled, referring to the fact that the Office of Protection of the Constitution of Germany has classified the regional höcke subsidiary of the extreme right.
Shock for immigration
No less blows were distributed the candidates on account of the immigrationnatural theme of the AFD and after the Recent attacks at the hands of asylum seekers In the country, also one of the main issues of the electoral agenda of the other parties, especially the CDU.
Thus, Merz returned to face Scholz that in “four days there are so many new irregular immigrants to the country as deportations are in a month”, while Scholz stressed that last year the illegal arrivals were reduced in 100,000 people and this year there will be Another similar decrease, while assuring that during its three years of mandate there was a 70% increase in deportations.
Behind him massive outrage From last Thursday in Munich committed by an Afghan, Merz said that the German government is the only one in Europe that still accepts Afghanistan refugees and that, to change this we may have to talk to the Taliban. Scholz replied that there was already a deportation flight to the Central Asian country and that there will be another in the future.
This issue was one of the few in which Habeck reacted energetically, reminding Merz that the Taliban are “a terror regime” and that the “small contingents” of refugees who arrive are people who helped Germany at the time. Weidel, in turn, promised to “stop illegal immigration” through 24 -hour controls at borders and constant deportation of “criminals and illegal.” Of course, he did not know how and with which staff he intends to “protect” about 4,000 kilometers of borders.
Source: Lasexta
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