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Far-right vote on asylum rocks German parliament (www.bbc.com)
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Germany's parliament descended into heckles and recriminations on Wednesday after a "firewall" against working with the far-right cracked.

A non-binding motion calling for tougher border and asylum rules passed with support from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). During the stormy session, politicians of various parties hurled criticism and blame at each other.

Conservative CDU leader Friedrich Merz, who tabled the plans, defended his actions as "necessary". But Chancellor Olaf Scholz slammed the move as an "unforgivable mistake".

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[–] labbbb2@thelemmy.club 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why isn't this junk party (AfD) still banned in Germany? And do they have centre-left/liberal parties in Germany, not conservative ones?

[–] Sas@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's the greens and technically the SPD although the SPD also picked up right wing taking points but not to the extreme that the CDU who now basically peddles the AFDs policies. Why the AFD isn't banned yet i don't know. It's a sad state

[–] labbbb2@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

although the SPD also picked up right wing taking points but not to the extreme that the CDU who now basically peddles the AFDs policies

It's terrifying. SPD/CDU, if I'm not mistaken, are two popular parties in Germany. I suppose they turned to right wing because of immigration and hysteria around that

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The CDU hasn't turned right wing, they were always right-wing and masqueraded as centrist. Merkel was part of the left-wing of the CDU (i.e. center-right) which caused many of the right-wing of the CDU (i.e. far-right) to leave and join the AfD. Merz is and has always been part of the right-wing.

"There shall never be a democratically legitimated party right of the CDU" - a CDU party leader, 1970

[–] labbbb2@thelemmy.club 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

By the way, I heard Merkel and Scholz had pro-Russia stance, and it's was a Merkel's fault, when she let a lot of immigrants into the country