Thuringia’s former Minister-President Bodo Ramelow (Left) has sharply criticized the recent proposals of Union faction leader Friedrich Merz to toughen up the migration policy, taking AfD votes in the Bundestag into account.
“In Thuringia, we had three such proposals from the CDU” the Left politician said to the “Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland”. “For a long time, the federal CDU has tried to brake the state CDU. Now, Mr. Merz’s behavior is an invitation to the CDU in the East to take no consideration at all. That leaves me speechless. I see no more red lines.”
Ramelow also recalled the act of a local resident in the Thuringian city of Eisenach, who had killed a 35-year-old woman and severely injured another. “There is no outcry about this nationwide” he said. “It only happens when perpetrators have a foreign background.” The climate that is being created, he emphasized, is bad. “We need immigration and successful integration, not fueling xenophobia.”
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