migration
Wüst calls for a “centre alliance” in migration policy
North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst on a centrist alliance: “But it has to be forged now.” photo
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Because of AfD polls high: Hendrik Wüst calls on the federal government to cooperate in limiting migration – and calls for an early meeting between the Prime Minister and Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
The CDU politician called for Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) to meet with the state prime ministers as soon as possible to evaluate the effect of the measures taken so far in migration policy. “A meeting in the next few weeks is the order of the day,” Wüst added. A radical meeting in Potsdam, in which individual AfD officials also took part, 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. When right-wing extremists use the term, they usually mean that large numbers of people of foreign origin should leave the country – even under duress. According to Correctiv research, Sellner named three target groups in Potsdam: asylum seekers, foreigners with the right to remain – and “non-assimilated citizens.”
SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert told the “Tagesspiegel am Sonntag” that the federal government was in constant communication with the federal states about migration policy issues. “Joint packages of measures have been agreed and are being processed,” explained Kühnert. He warned: “Against the background of recently uncovered coup and deportation plans in circles of AfD officials, entrepreneurs and right-wing radical activists, there is no need for concessions to the increasingly radical AfD. Rather, an alliance of the democratic majority is needed to counteract the nationalistic furor of the AfD and Co. to counteract.”