{"id":14,"date":"2025-01-31T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=14"},"modified":"2025-02-17T00:32:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T00:32:55","slug":"merkel-criticises-her-party-leader-after-far-right-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Merkel criticises her party leader after far-right vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Germany&#8217;s former Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticised her own party leader for passing a motion in parliament with support from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, Merkel accused CDU leader Friedrich Merz of turning his back on a previous pledge not to work with AfD in the Bundestag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The parliament descended into heckles on Wednesday\u00a0after votes from the far-right party meant a non-binding CDU motion on tougher immigration rules was passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Asake - Lonely At The Top (Official Video)\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bbVZo4Yw7pI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a highly unusual intervention by the woman who led Germany for 16 years, stepping in to criticise the actions of her former political rival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merz, who is tipped to be Germany&#8217;s next chancellor due to CDU&#8217;s lead in the polls, said on Wednesday that a policy was not wrong just because the &#8220;wrong people back it&#8221; and that he had not sought nor wanted AfD&#8217;s support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Merkel accused him of breaking a pledge he made in November to work with the Social Democratic Party and the Greens to pass legislation, not AfD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was to ensure &#8220;neither in determining the agenda nor in voting on the matter here in the House will there be a random or actually brought about majority with those from the AfD,&#8221;&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buero-bundeskanzlerin-ad.de\/erklaerungen\/erklaerung-von-bundeskanzlerin-a-d-dr-angela-merkel-zur-abstimmung-im-\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">read a quote from Merz in Merkel&#8217;s statement.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former chancellor said she fully supported this earlier &#8220;expression of great state political responsibility&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think it is wrong to no longer feel bound by this proposal and thereby knowingly allow the AfD to gain a majority in a vote in the German Bundestag on 29 January 2025 for the first time.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said &#8220;all democratic parties&#8221; needed to work together &#8220;to do everything they can to prevent such terrible attacks in the future as those that took place shortly before Christmas in Magdeburg and a few days ago in Aschaffenburg&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a rare intervention from Merkel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To openly criticise her own party&#8217;s candidate for chancellor \u2013 just weeks out from an election \u2013 is a big move and will add rocket fuel to a an already explosive story in German politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merkel and Merz go back a long way &#8211; and not as the best of friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was famously side-lined by Merkel in the early 2000s after she won out in a CDU power struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merz would go on to quit front-line politics for many years before making his return. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c3w89w5dxgvo\">(BBC)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s former Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticised her own party leader for passing a motion in parliament with support from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). 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