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Responding to the murder of a child, the leading Christian Democrats in the poll are pushing to revise migration legislation, in all likelihood with the votes of the alternative for Germany.
By Jim Tankersley and Christopher F. Schuetze
Berlin reports
The man who is favored to be Germany’s next chancellor has opened the door to working with the Alternative for Germany to pass tough new immigration restrictions, potentially breaking a longstanding effort to shun a party whose flirtation with Nazi language has made it anathema to the political mainstream.
The inauguration of Friedrich Merz, the leader of the right-wing Central Christian Democrats, who is leading the polls for next month’s chancellor election, came here after a stabbing last week in Bavaria by a mentally Afghan immigrant who gave two people, adding a young child.
The attack, the last of a series of higher level murders led through immigrants, since then the legislative elections of Germany, established on February 23, has been reached upwards, renamed what had been a crusade on the subject of the Economy towards the discussion of the migration of.
Mr. Merz tries to show the electorate that he and his party are serious about tightening Germany’s borders and continuing deportations of migrants that the government has decided to leave the country.
But until now, all parties at the national level had built what is colloquially known as a “firewall” around the AfD, hoping to blunt the party’s move into the mainstream.
AFD lately is a time in the surveys before the elections, comfortably sitting in front of the social democrats of Foreign Minister Olaf Scholz, although the Christian Democrats of Mr. Merz.
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