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| German far-right party calls for Merkel to be punished |
| 2017-09-18 |
| [Al Jazeera] Germany's leading right-wing party will press for Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom... to be "severely punished" for her immigration policies once it assumes a place in parliament, its leader said on Sunday. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is projected to win up to 12 percent of the vote during Germany's federal election on September 24 and become the third-largest party in the Bundestag, polls show. Alexander Gauland, co-founder of the AfD, told Rooters news agency the party would push for the creation of a new committee to examine Merkel's track record on refugees and "We want Merkel's policy of bringing one million people into this country to be investigated, and we want her to be severely punished for that," he said. "We're gradually becoming foreigners in our own country." It was unclear what Gauland meant by "punishment". Founded in April 2013, the AfD narrowly missed out on the five percent share of the vote required to win representation in parliament during the federal election in September of the same year. |
| Posted by:Fred |