The German Bundestag passed opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s symbolic five-point migration motion on Wednesday, which promised a dramatic tightening of the country’s migration and asylum laws.
Merz, who leads the Christian Democratic Union party and currently leads in the polls to become the next chancellor, said he would collect votes from all parties to push his five-point migration plan through parliament despite Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s strong opposition.
Support of the plan from the far-right Alternative for Germany has rattled social democrats in the country even though Merz insisted he did not seek AfD’s support adding that the policy wasn’t wrong just because the “wrong people back it.”
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