The former chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, has once again defended her doors -open policy in 2015 after considering her “fundamentally wrong” the conservative leader, Friedrich Merz, while recognizing what works to do, but not if that requires that Have the support of the extreme right, as happened last week in Parliament.
“I do not believe that the refugee policy of the last 10 years has been a mistake. However, I would say that our work is not over and that there is still much to do, ”he said on Wednesday in a debate with the German media ‘Zeit’ in the city of Hamburg the conservative policy, which the German government headed between 2005 and 2021 However, he added, “this should not be done at the expense of the support of a party contrary to our democratic system.”
“Even in difficult conditions, majorities should not be achieved with the help of AFD,” said Merkel, who on January 30 criticized in an unusual statement Merz’s decision to present two motions in the lower house and a bill to limit Irregular migration even knowing that, for approval, it would need the support of the ultra -right.
The leader of the Cristianodemocrata (CDU) union, the party that Merkel still considers “his”, despite all the differences, he finally managed Populist left, and liberals, but not the bill.
In this way, Merz broke a taboo in German politics, which has imposed a sanitary cordon to AFD, despite having even said last November that he would never look for the vote of the extreme right to achieve a majority in Parliament.
Merkel stressed that she is a citizen, ex -chancellor and simply did not seem appropriate to remain silent in a “decisive” situation as it is to count for the first time in Parliament with the vote of the extreme right.
Merz justified his proceeding with the argument that presenting an initiative that is supported by AFD does not automatically make it a bad or inappropriate initiative when a majority of the Germans would see well hardening immigration policy.
“There has been a certain polarization”
After the vows tens of thousands of Germans took to the streets to protest against the extreme right and cracks in the sanitary cordon caused by the conservatives.
“I think the result is that there has been a certain polarization. I think all the deputies were worried about it and, in my opinion, now you have to find a situation in which the commitments are possible again, ”said Merkel.
The former chancellor also responded to Merz’s accusation that the CDU has an important co -responsibility for the entry of AFD in the lower house in 2017 and that it now even has a 20% of intention to vote for the general elections of the 23 of February, remembering that the party arose following the euro crisis and then had 4.8% in the elections.
Of course, he acknowledged that AFD won impulse with the refugee crisis, but also for the disputes between the CDU and his sister Bavara Social Cristiana Union (CSU) about migration. When she left politics, she said, AFD had 11% and That now has 20% “it really is no longer my responsibility.”
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