As the trial on Friday continued, the party leaders frantically tried to get deputies on the side, and Mertz collided with the uprising of the center in his party.
The CDU leader hopes that a tougher migration position will win voters with AFD. But his dependence on this party for this vote risks losing more moderate voters.
Thousands of people took to the streets of Germany on Thursday night as opposed to CDU cooperation with the far right.
The CDU leads in the election ahead of the German election next month. Currently, AFD conducts a second place poll, although the Merz turned off any coalition with them.
While voting on Wednesday, there was a mandatory petition for changes to the Immigration Law through Parliament, the actual legislation aimed at restraint of immigration and family reunification rights will be adopted on Friday.
However, his proposed measures are unlikely to take effect on this side of the February elections and – if they did it, they may face the EU law.
The proposed legislation opposes parties, including the current Chancellor Olaf Social Democrats (SPD). Scholtz is one of those who criticized Merza’s dependence on AFD, calling it an “unforgivable mistake”.
“Since the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, more than 75 years ago, our parliaments always have a clear consensus: we do not make a common cause with the far right,” he said.
In her rare intervention in politics, Merkel said that violated the promise Made in November to work with the Social Democratic Party and Greens to adopt the legislation rather than AUD. She described the key as “an expression of great political responsibility”.
