Comment on the migration conversation: All democratic parties are needed

Three days before the federal-state round, Chancellor Scholz discussed migration with the leaders of the Union. A divided society can benefit from conversations like these.

It is high time for all democratic parties to show civic responsibility. Especially when it comes to the migration issue, which is so hotly debated. So will the Union jump over its long, black, sometimes bluish shadow or not?

That is the question, and how it is answered will have a decisive impact on the coming months and the coming years. In view of the multiple global crises, which have now added a further, terrible one in the war in the Middle East, the Union must form a republican front with the government on the refugee issue – instead of continuing to try irreconcilably to overcome the fears and the uncertain moods of large parts to profit from the population and the real concerns of the communities. The consequence is toxic – for the debate, but also for society.

The Chancellor’s calculations

Olaf Scholz – certainly also with the intention of depriving the largest opposition faction of an issue – offered this pact, a Germany pact for all democratic parties, without the Left Party, which currently only exists as a shell of itself.

He doesn’t need the Union to make laws, not even on the migration issue. But he needs the Union and Friedrich Merz to achieve social peace, or at least a ceasefire, in a society that is increasingly fragmenting.

Deep cracks in society

The question of how refugees are dealt with in this country has already led to deep rifts during Angela Merkel’s time in office, and the Chancellor would be blind if he did not recognize similar signs on the wall. The issue has the potential to flush extremists to the place where they can cause the greatest possible damage to the country: to power. Can be seen in Thuringia, but also in other federal states. Who, if not all democratic parties, should stop them.

And this is where the Union comes into play again. Constantly, against all reason, putting demands on the table that cannot be implemented: for example, cutting benefits for asylum seekers – which the Constitutional Court considers to be unconstitutional – or an upper limit of 200,000 refugees, which, by the way, would mean that Germany is out Having to leave the EU only brings credit and points to extremists.

It will only benefit the AfD and the like if the trenches in this republic continue to fill with the poisonous broth of hatred and agitation. It is also up to Merz and his Union whether this country will argue even more bitterly and irreconcilably in the future or whether it will reflect. Because the enemies of democracy are already in parliament.