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2025-01-30 Europe
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In Historic First, Anti-Migration Resolution Passes the German Bundestag with Support from Alternative für Deutschland
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 [eugyppius: a plague chronicle] I don’t have the energy to write you a proper post, mainly because I spent all day watching debate in the German Bundestag. I cannot, however, let this moment pass in silence:
Just over an hour ago, an anti-migration resolution proposed by the centre-right CDU passed the Bundestag with the support of Alternative fur Deutschland. The vote was 348 in favour and 345 against, with 10 abstentions.
The cordon sanitaire — on life support since Sunday — came down for the very first time. It was an epochal moment. Although the resolution itself is a non-binding measure, the centre-right CDU and CSU have achieved a parliamentary outcome with AfD votes, and that has never happened before. As Green Party Chancellor candidate Robert Habeck said in his speech today, "If you vote with the AfD on this very important issue, on what issue won’t you vote with the AfD?" That is the crux of the matter. This vote suggests that the Influx Limitation Act, up for a vote on Friday, will also pass the Bundestag (if not the Bundesrat), once again with a majority made by the AfD. If we are lucky the cordon sanitaire will come down not once, but twice in the same week.
After today’s vote, the left side of parliament broke out in jeering and booing; SPD representatives became particularly hysterical after their leader, Rolf Mutzenich, lamented that the Union had "abandoned the political middle." That is good. The left have become just a little less powerful, and the events set in motion this afternoon threaten to marginalise them ever further in the years to come.
There will of course be no coalition between the CDU and the populist opposition after this election. The present CDU leadership, including their Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz, are committed enemies of the AfD, however happy they may be to cast themselves as anti-migration hardliners. It is even possible that the CDU throw their weight behind schemes to ban the AfD after the elections in an effort to put the toothpaste back in the tube.
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Posted by Besoeker 2025-01-30 07:25||
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Posted by Mercutio 2025-01-30 10:01||
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