Frankfurt (Germany), Jan. 30 (LaPresse) – Germany's former chancellor, Angela Merkel, has criticized the leader of the Cdu and Union chancellor candidate, Friedrich Merz, for the Bundestag's passage of the Cdu-Csu motion on tightening migration policies, which also came with the votes of the ultra-right AfD. Merkel called the events in the Bundestag that allowed a majority with the AfD “wrong.” The former chancellor referred to what Merz himself said on Nov. 13, 2024, in a speech in the Bundestag in which he stressed the need not to create majorities in Parliament that could only be realized with the AfD. “This proposal and the position associated with it were an expression of great political responsibility, which I fully support. I consider it wrong to no longer feel bound by this proposal and thus, for the first time, to allow a majority with AfD votes in a vote in the German Bundestag on Jan. 29, 2025,” Merkel said in a note. “Instead, it is necessary for all democratic parties to work together across party boundaries, not as a tactical maneuver, but honestly, in moderate tones and on the basis of applicable European law, to do everything possible to prevent these terrible attacks in the future, such as those that occurred recently in Magdeburg just before Christmas and a few days ago in Aschaffenburg,” the former chancellor concluded.
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