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The German Bundestag rejects the bill that aimed to tighten migration rules!

2025-01-31 23:17:49Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

The German Bundestag rejects the bill that aimed to tighten migration rules!

The relief was great when the vice president of the Bundestag, Petra Pau , announced the result of the vote on Friday evening: A narrow victory for those who wanted to keep their distance from the far right.

With only 12 more votes, the motion to "limit the flow of migration", proposed by the CDU/CSU, was rejected.

In total, 349 MPs voted against, 338 in favor and 5 abstained.

This bill aimed to tighten migration rules and give the federal police more powers for deportations.

But the real drama was not in its content, but in the way the CDU/CSU presented it in parliament.

It was clear that this initiative could only pass with the help of AfD votes, something that had until now been taboo in the Bundestag.

For decades, the main parties had maintained a strong distance from the far right, but this vote challenged this unwritten rule.

“A stain that will always follow you”

In the Bundestag hall, the political temperature was at its highest.

The debate started four hours late, there were many long interruptions, and speeches were interrupted by mutual accusations.

The head of the SPD parliamentary group, Rolf Mützenich, called this a historic moment, but not in a positive sense.

"If the Union relies on AfD votes, this will be a stain that will always follow them," he warned.

The conservatives, led by Friedrich Merz, who is not only the chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group and the CDU party but also the leading candidate for chancellor, rejected the accusations. “Nobody in my party shakes hands with the AfD,” he said firmly. “This party undermines the foundations of our democracy and aims to destroy the CDU.”

AfD: "CDU/CSU copied our program"

Annalena Baerbock, Minister of Foreign Affairs (Greens), recalled that the motion to amend the migration law was submitted precisely on January 29, when the Bundestag also commemorated the victims of the Holocaust.

"Wednesday began with a commemoration of the victims of Nazism and ended with the far right laughing and celebrating in our parliament. This is a serious violation of taboos," she said.

The message was clear: the CDU/CSU had crossed a red line and now had to face the consequences.

AfD MPs, led by Alice Weidel as their candidate for chancellor, have been trying to pull the CDU/CSU away from them for some time, and did not hide their satisfaction on Friday: "A real change in migration policy can only come with the AfD. The CDU/CSU has copied our program, which is why we are supporting it," said the parliamentary group's co-chair, Bernd Baumann.

Public opinion in favor of restricting migration, against cooperation with AfD

Although the bill was rejected, the question left open this week is how far the CDU/CSU is willing to go to secure power.

However, this extraordinary episode in post-war Germany does not seem to have changed Germans' voting preferences for the moment:

As the February 23 parliamentary elections approach, the latest polls continue to show the CDU/CSU in the lead with 30%, followed by the AfD with 20%.

The SPD and the Greens with 15%, and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance with 5%. The FDP and The Left (Die Linke) risk being left out of parliament, as they fall below the 5% threshold.

A quick poll by German public broadcaster ARD showed that the majority of Germans are in favor of tightening migration policies, but just as many Germans are against any kind of cooperation with the AfD./ dw


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