How to deal with the good approval ratings for the AfD? NRW Prime Minister Wüst is promoting a “centre alliance” that will jointly look for ways to limit migration to Germany. To achieve this, the traffic light must work with the states.
North Rhine-Westphalia’s Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) has called on the federal government to cooperate in limiting migration in view of the AfD’s high polls. “The power of populists and extremists always comes from the inability of the Democrats to act. This is especially true when it comes to one of the big problems of our time: the migration issue,” Wüst told the “Tagesspiegel am Sonntag”.
The CDU politician hopes that a center alliance could weaken the political fringes. “But it has to be forged now,” demanded Wüst. The CDU politician called for an early meeting between Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and the state prime ministers in order to assess the effect of the measures taken so far in migration policy: “A meeting in the next few weeks is the order of the day.”
“The AfD is a Nazi party”
The radical meeting in Potsdam, which individual AfD officials also took part in, showed that the AfD is not a “protest party”. “The AfD is a dangerous Nazi party,” said Wüst. Individual AfD officials as well as individual members of the CDU and the ultra-conservative Values Union took part in the meeting in a Potsdam villa in November. The former head of the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement in Austria, Martin Sellner, confirmed to the German Press Agency that he had spoken about “remigration” at the meeting. Right-wing extremists mean that a large number of people of foreign origin should leave the country – even under duress.