In a position paper, the AfD has set out its priorities for the federal election. The main focus is on the issue of migration – according to co-leader Chrupalla, the “mother of all problems”. He wants to drastically reduce benefits for asylum seekers.
At a special meeting at the end of the parliamentary summer recess, the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag set out its work priorities until the federal election. According to a position paper adopted by the parliamentary group in Berlin, the AfD MPs want to concentrate on the three subject areas of domestic, economic and social policy.
From the perspective of the parliamentary group leadership, the overarching issue is migration. Co-parliamentary group leader Tino Chrupalla spoke of the “mother of all problems”. Someone else had already said that. In 2018, former CSU leader and Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer described the migration issue as the “mother of all political problems in this country”.
Only “bread, bed and soap” for asylum seekers
In its paper, the group reiterates well-known positions and calls for rejections at the German border, deportations of rejected asylum seekers and, “if necessary,” border fences. There should be no asylum procedures for people without identity papers.
They also advocate lower taxes, a return to nuclear power and longer operating times for coal-fired power plants, as well as support for the combustion engine and oil and gas heating.
In social policy, the AfD faction demands: “citizens’ allowances only for Germans” and for asylum seekers and refugees only benefits in kind “according to the principle of ‘bread, bed and soap'”, as it says.
Weidel speaks of absolute majority
Co-faction leader Alice Weidel attacked the traffic light coalition and described it as a minority government in view of the current poll results for the SPD, Greens and FDP. The traffic light government must step down. She accused the Union of copying the AfD’s program in terms of migration policy.
At the same time, Weidel set more than ambitious goals for the upcoming state elections in Brandenburg and for the upcoming federal elections: “We will aim for an absolute majority there,” she said, because only with the AfD will there be “a real turnaround on asylum.” Two weeks before the election, the AfD is at 27 percent in Brandenburg and 19 percent in the federal government.