Friedrich Merz is chasing voters defecting to the buoyant AfD and says that his policies are “right even if the wrong people vote for them”
Friedrich Merz is chasing voters defecting to the buoyant AfD and says that his policies are right even if the wrong people vote for them
Merz’s view that violence committed by immigrants justifies him is rejected by other parties and jeopardises their willingness to work with him after the February 23rd vote. That matters because his CDU/CSU party is running on a 29 per cent share of votes in polling, compared to 22 per cent for the AfD, 17 per cent for the Social Democrats , 15 per cent for the Greens and an aggregate 9 per cent for the two left parties.
Merz is chasing voters defecting to the buoyant AfD and says that his policies to restrict asylum rights, stop family reunions and detain deportees are “right even if the wrong people vote for them”. Other parties regard this as suicidal and as a slippery slope to the far-right entering government, as has happened in Austria, Sweden, Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands and potentially in France.
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