Horst Seehofer: “If the Union does not hold its election promises, the AfD can start to become an overtaking maneuver” | EUROtoday

Ex-Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer (CSU) considers the course taken by the brand new federal authorities in migration coverage, with rejections, additionally by asylum seekers to the bounds to maintain the AfD at a distance. “In Formula 1 one would say: the AfD is on striking distance. If the Union makes mistakes and does not keep its election promises, the AfD can start to become an overtaking maneuver,” mentioned the previous Bavarian Prime Minister of the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”.

“I don’t like to get my mind about what happens if that doesn’t stop. I don’t believe in that, but it is existential for trusting the Union,” mentioned Seehofer with a view to authorized imponderables after a choice by the Berlin Administrative Court. The rejection of three asylum seekers from Somalia had declared this to be illegal throughout a management on the practice station of the border city of Frankfurt (Oder).

“Angela Merkel doesn’t see that until today,” says Seehofer

Seehofer praised his successor and social gathering colleague Alexander Dobrindt. The latter “initiated a real turn in migration after we have tormented it excruciatingly for ten years”. Seehofer shared the previous Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) for the energy of the AfD and mentioned that “the opening of the border 2015/2016” was the fundamental error.

“But Angela Merkel doesn’t see that to this day,” mentioned the CSU politician. Seehofer, then Bavarian Prime Minister, and Merkel had come into an open battle on the course of German migration coverage in the middle of the refugee disaster. At the time, Merkel had determined to let the German borders open.

The AfD was final in second place behind the Union in surveys. In an INSA survey for the “Bild am Sonntag”, CDU/CSU got here to 27 p.c, one level greater than within the earlier week. The AfD misplaced some extent and landed at 23 p.c. The numbers within the present ZDF well mannered barometer look comparable.