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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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[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 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 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 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