The curator, whose party is currently at the top of the polls, hardens his position on immigration before the federal elections next month.
The leader of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) (CDU), Friedrich Merz, is committed to rampant against illegal immigration if he becomes Chancellor after the federal elections next month.
The leader of the opposition party said Thursday thatHe would prohibit the entry into Germany to people without papers in good standing and has promised to increase expulsions.
This declaration comes in the aftermath ofAn attack that killed twoincluding a child, and three injured in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria.
The suspect, who was arrested, was a former asylum seeker. He was known to local authorities and had already been admitted to a psychiatric hospital. He would have declared more than a month ago that he would leave the country of his own free will.
A new attack that occurs a month from the federal elections
Friedrich Merz says that The attack has “caused great dismay throughout the country” and associated it with other incidents by exposing its new position.
“I refuse to recognize that the acts of Mannheim, Solingen, Magdeburg and now Aschaffenburg are the new normality in Germany”he said. “We have reached the point of rupture. We are faced with the disorder of an asylum and immigration policy that has been poorly oriented in Germany for 10 years”.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz met the country’s security services on Wednesday evening and said they “will draw the necessary consequences”without however specifying which ones.
The polls show that at one month from the February elections, Support for the social democrats of Olaf Scholz, the Greens and the Liberals-Democrats has decreased Since the collapse of the “tricolor fire” coalition last November.
At the same time, voting intentions increase significantly for opposition partiesthe Christian Democratic Union and the alternative for extreme right Germany (AFD).
