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German conservatives have formed an anti-migrant alliance with the staunchly patriotic Alternative for German (AfD) Party. The CDU and AfD will vote together on immigration restriction, both parties have said

The collapse of the toxic Left-Wing/Liberal Germany continues as the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) says that it will implement strict immigration laws even if it has to enlist the support of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) to pass them. The move marks the first time a mainstream German party has agreed to work with the AfD.

In a letter to party members seen by Politico on Friday, CDU leadership said that its lawmakers would introduce harsh immigration restrictions even ’if only the AfD supports our proposals.’

‘We will introduce motions in the German Bundestag [Parliament] that are exclusively in line with our convictions,’ CDU leader Friedrich Merz told German news agency DPA later on Friday. ’And we will introduce them regardless of who agrees with them.’

Since the AfD’s founding in 2013, the country’s mainstream parties have maintained a firewall around the right-wingers, refusing to enter coalition talks with them and declining to introduce legislation that could only pass with their support.

However, German attitudes to immigration have hardened since former CDU leader and Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Germany’s borders to more than a million migrants in 2015. The anti-migrant pro-Russian AfD is now the country’s second-most-popular party.

Ahead of a general election next month, the AfD is polling at 20%, behind the CDU at 30% but ahead of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SDP) at 17%, according to Politico. 

Merz is expected to assume the chancellorship after the election. A recent survey found that Immigration is the top concern among voters.

After an Afghan man allegedly stabbed a two-year-old child to death at a Bavarian school earlier this week, AfD leader Alice Weidel wrote to Merz offering to back any immigration restrictions proposed by his party.

‘The firewall has fallen!’ Weidel wrote on X on Friday. ’The CDU and CSU have accepted my offer to vote together with the AfD in the Bundestag on the crucial issue of migration. This is good news for our country!’ she added, referring to the CDU’s Bavarian sister party. You can share this story on social media: PLEASE HELP US TO REACH OUT BY SHARING OUR STORIES

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