ER Editor: So we have the right-populist AfD party actually helping the centre right CDU under Friedrich Merz to pass an anti-migration resolution in the Bundestag yesterday. And tomorrow is a vote on the Influx Limitation Act, designed to restrict future immigration. As eugyppius notes below, if tomorrow’s vote goes through with AfD help, the cordon sanitaire is buried once and for all.
Meanwhile, the Left is about to get marginalized. Who would have thought this could happen?
BERLIN — A taboo-breaking gambit from Germany’s likely next chancellor to crack down on migration with the help of far-right lawmakers has unleashed a fierce debate that strikes at the core of the country’s postwar identity.
Germany’s conservatives have introduced plans for tougher migration measures, with votes from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party potentially giving their leader, Friedrich Merz, the parliamentary majority he needs to sharply reduce migration.
“Yes, it may be that the AfD will for the first time make it possible for a necessary law to be passed,” Merz said on Wednesday in a heated parliamentary debate. “But ladies and gentlemen, we are faced with the choice of continuing to watch helplessly as people in our country are threatened, injured and murdered,” he went on, “or to stand up and do what is indisputably necessary in this matter.”
Merz’s willingness to accept far-right support is hugely significant weeks ahead of a national election because Germany’s mainstream political parties have long sought to maintain a Brandmauer, or “firewall,” around the AfD — refusing even to pass legislation with help from the party.
Merz’s change of tack to accept such support is part of a pre-election effort to win back voters who have defected to the far right over migration.
A reminder about that ‘post-war identity’, which has inflicted massive guilt upon the German population, possibly falsely and in a weaponized manner: Elon Musk told Germans to forget their guilt last weekend, just as Holocaust Remembrance Day was coming up this past Monday. And Trump is back. There are truly no coincidences —
THE CORDON SANITAIRE HAS FALLEN: In Historic First, Anti-Migration Resolution Passes the German Bundestag with Support from Alternative für Deutschland
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eugyppius
Jan 29, 2025
I don’t have the energy to write you a proper post, mainly because I spent all day watching debate in the German Bundestag. I cannot, however, let this moment pass in silence:
Just over an hour ago, an anti-migration resolution proposed by the centre-right CDU passed the Bundestag with the support of Alternative für Deutschland. The vote was 348 in favour and 345 against, with 10 abstentions.
The cordon sanitaire – on life support since Sunday – came down for the very first time. It was an epochal moment.
Although the resolution itself is a non-binding measure, the centre-right CDU and CSU have achieved a parliamentary outcome with AfD votes, and that has never happened before. As Green Party Chancellor candidate Robert Habeck said in his speech today, “If you vote with the AfD on this very important issue, on what issue won’t you vote with the AfD?” That is the crux of the matter.This vote suggests that the Influx Limitation Act, up for a vote on Friday, will also pass the Bundestag (if not the Bundesrat), once again with a majority made by the AfD.If we are lucky the cordon sanitaire will come down not once, but twice in the same week.
After today’s vote, the left side of parliament broke out in jeering and booing; SPD representatives became particularly hysterical after their leader, Rolf Mützenich, lamented that the Union had “abandoned the political middle.” That is good. The left have become just a little less powerful, and the events set in motion this afternoon threaten to marginalise them ever further in the years to come.
There will of course be no coalition between the CDU and the populist opposition after this election. The present CDU leadership, including their Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz, are committed enemies of the AfD, however happy they may be to cast themselves as anti-migration hardliners. It is even possible that the CDU throw their weight behind schemes to ban the AfD after the elections in an effort to put the toothpaste back in the tube.
Other things are possible too, however: After today, it will become very hard indeed for CDU politicians to explain to their voters why they cannot use AfD votes for anything at all. The possibility will haunt any future coalition with the left.
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2 Comments on In Historic First, Anti-Migration Resolution Passes the German Parliament with Support from Alternative für Deutschland
This is great news and to answer Barney about the UK: The Brits had the choice to vote for people like Nigel Farage, instead they elected the zionist puppet Boris the clown and worst of all, the biggest enemy of Britain, #twotierkeir.
This is however not too late for the British population to take-up arms and topple the criminals who infiltrated their country institutions.
eugyppius
eugyppius
This is great news and to answer Barney about the UK: The Brits had the choice to vote for people like Nigel Farage, instead they elected the zionist puppet Boris the clown and worst of all, the biggest enemy of Britain, #twotierkeir.
This is however not too late for the British population to take-up arms and topple the criminals who infiltrated their country institutions.
#twotierkeir OUT!
When, oh when, will this happen in the UK?