Friedrich Merz seems to have the feeling of having to explain himself. “I will not have any talks with this party about any kind of collaboration,” said the CDU chairman about the AfD in a campaign speech on Saturday in Künzelsau.
Before that, he had already assured the “Bild” newspaper: “There will be no cooperation with the AfD. Everyone can rely on this. ”On Saturday evening, Merz repeats this promise when the campaign appears in Fulda.
Actually, the statements are not news. Friedrich Merz has repeatedly distanced itself from the AfD in recent years. And yet his employees publish this video passages of his campaign speeches on Saturday. Because in the middle of the election campaign end sprint there is suddenly doubts about how serious Merz takes the fire wall to the right wing.
After the knife attack of Aschaffenburg with two deaths, Merz quickly presented a five-point plan, which he still wanted to implement “on the first day of his term” with his powers of guidelines: an entry ban for people without papers, more rights for the Federal Police, unlimited exit arrest for endangers. A tough change of course to the asylum policy of recent years.
A right decision is not wrong by agreeing to the wrong ones.
CDU boss Friedrich Merz Also wants to accept votes from the AfD for his application.
But for this turn, Merz cannot obviously not go fast enough. Just a day later, he announced that he wanted to bring corresponding applications to the Bundestag in the coming week – even if he could rely on the votes of AfD and BSW there for a majority. Merz announced that he no longer wanted to compromise.
On Saturday, when he appeared in Fulda, he renewed this line: “A right decision will not be wrong because the wrong ones agree,” says Merz and receives great applause. He had already sent his applications to the SPD, the Greens and FDP, but not AfD and BSW. A small back door for negotiations leaves Merz: “There are no more compromises,” he says. Many, not none.
SPD and the Greens do not want to negotiate
But with Social Democrats and the Greens, the willingness to negotiate seems manageable anyway. You don’t want to let Merz drive yourself and instead senses the chance to get the conservatives into a fire wall debate.
“Apart from constitutional and European law, we have always been willing to talk about more effectiveness,” says the Parliamentary Managing Director of the Greens, Irene Mihalic, the Tagesspiegel. The Union’s demands would pass the goods. “We have a prison deficit and urgently need a basic investment in our security authorities,” said Mihalic.
Dirk Wiese, Vice-Group leader of the SPD in the Bundestag, also rejects a large part of Merz Rigoros’ suggestions. “These are half -bodied rapid shots that are only for the shop window,” he told the Tagesspiegel. Regarding Merz that the federal police should receive the right to apply for arrest warrants in the future, he says: “One of our fundamental legal principles is that arrest warrants are in the hands of judges and prosecutors. It is not to be shaken. “
The only thing that could be discussed can only be discussed about the demand that the federal and state governments should work more closely together in the event of deportations. So far, however, many interior ministers of the CDU would slow down and insist on their responsibilities.
It also takes a lot of time. Wiese therefore formulated a counter -proposal to Merz: “If Friedrich Merz is honestly interested in doing something for security in our country, then we could decide on the Federal Police Act, the national implementation of GEAS and the parts of the security package next week have been blocked by the Union in the Federal Council so far. ”
On Saturday, Merz also received rejection from his competitors for the Chancellery. “The constitution always has to be our top guideline,” said Chancellor Olaf Scholz at an SPD election campaign event in Saarbrücken. He criticized the CDU chairman for the fact that his proposals were not compatible with “the constitution of this country and with the European contracts”.
Similarly, the Greens’ candidate for Chancellor, Robert Habeck, commented in Stuttgart: On the one hand, the rejection of asylum seekers would be “a restriction of asylum law that we have not known since World War II”. On the other hand, a one-sided approach without consultation with the EU partner would “tear Europe immediately,” said Habeck.
The Vice Chancellor also makes Merz a counter offer: If Merz withdraws his announcement, if necessary decide on the applications with the AfD, there will be “respect for this and no malice”.
However, it seems questionable whether Merz goes into it. Four weeks before the election, a strength sample in the Bundestag seems inevitable.