Alice Weidel, co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), has celebrated the Bundestag vote in favour of more rejections at Germany’s borders as a “great day for democracy.”
It was clear “sensible proposals can be adopted,” chancellor candidate Weidel asserted ahead of the German election on February 23.
She called on the conservative CDU/CSU to consider “whether to continue to maintain the firewall” between mainstream parties and the AfD, “which in our view is undemocratic.”
The CDU had long denied the need for migration restrictions, Weidel said. Now it has adopted the demands of the AfD.
Faction and co-party leader Tino Chrupalla spoke of a “turning point in migration policy.” He hopes that CDU leader Friedrich Merz will actually put a draft law on migration to a vote on Friday.
Friedrich Merz (C), Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) Federal Chairman and CDU/ Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag, walks past the Members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), which cheer and claps after the announcement of the results of the vote in favor of a tighter migration policy. Michael Kappeler/dpa
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