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Responding to the killing of a child, the poll-leading Christian Democrats are pushing to overhaul migration laws — possibly with votes from the Alternative for Germany.
By Jim Tankersley and Christopher F. Schuetze
Reports from Berlin
The guy who is favored as Gerguyy’s next chancellor has opened the door to the paintings with the option that Gerguy will pass new immigration restrictions, which could break a long -standing effort for a match that flirts with the Nazi language has made An anatema for political policy that current policy.
The opening of Friedrich Merz, the leader of the center-right Christian Democrats, who is leading the polls for next month’s chancellor elections, got here after a stabbing last week in Bavaria through a mentally Afghan immigrant who ked two people, adding a toddler.
The attack, the latest in a string of high-profile killings carried out by immigrants, has since upended Germany’s parliamentary election, set for Feb. 23, refocusing what had been an economy-themed campaign toward the contentious issue of migration.
Merz is looking to exhibit electorate so that he and his party take the adjustment of the borders of Germany and the additional deportations of migrants that the government has decided that they deserve to leave the country.
But until now, all parties at the national point had built what is colloquially known as a “firewall” around the AFD, hoping to extinguish the party’s passage into the mainstream.
The AfD is currently running second in polls before the election, sitting comfortably ahead of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats, though well behind Mr. Merz’s Christian Democrats.
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