In a recent development, the leader of the AfD, Tino Chrupalla, expressed skepticism regarding the announcement by CDU’s top candidate Friedrich Merz to submit parliamentary requests on migration and internal security before the federal election. Chrupalla stated to the “Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland”that the CDU and CSU have consistently rejected the AfD’s proposals for effective border control and the deportation of dangerous immigrants. Instead, Merz has continued the policy of open borders. Chrupalla emphasized that a good migration policy is only possible under the leadership of the Alternative for Germany and that Germany needs secure borders, not walls.
In a separate development, Chrupalla’s co-leader and Bundestag election top candidate, Alice Weidel, had extended an offer to Merz for cooperation in migration policy in an open letter on Thursday evening. Weidel wrote, “Let us take the necessary decisions without further hesitation to implement what the citizens rightly expect from politics now.