Merkel criticized his party leader after a distant vote

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized his own party leader for passing a resolution in Parliament with the support of a distant option for Germany (AFD).

In a statement, Merkel accused the CDU leader Frederick Merz not to work with AFD in Bundestag to turn his back on the previous vow.

Parliament landed in Hekals on Wednesday After the remote party’s votes meant that a non-negotiable CDU resolution was passed on strict immigration rules.

This is a highly unusual intervention by a woman who led Germany for 16 years, stepped into criticizing her former political rival actions.

The leadership of the CDU in the elections was touched to be the next Chancellor of Germany, Merz said on Wednesday that a policy was not wrong simply because “wrong people return it” and he is not demanding AFD’s support. Was nor wanted.

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It was to ensure that “neither in determining the agenda nor in the House would be a random in voting on the matter or in fact the majority would be brought with the AFD people,” Read a quotation from Merz in Merkel’s statement.

The former Chancellor said that he supported this first “expression of great state political responsibility”.

“I think it is wrong to not feel bound by this proposal now and thus deliberately allows AFD to get a majority in a vote in the German Bundestag on 29 January 2025 for the first time.”

He said that “all Democratic parties” need to work together “to prevent such terrible attacks in the future to do everything that in Magadeberg in Magdeberg shortly before and a few days in Ashfenburg Was done “.

This is a rare intervention from Merkel.

For the Chancellor to openly criticize his own party candidate – for a few weeks from an election – a big step and will add rocket fuel to the explosive story already in German politics.

Merkel and Merz go a long way – and not as the best friends.

He was famous by Merkel in side-line in the early 2000s after winning the CDU power struggle.

Merz left the front-line politics for many years before her comeback.

Since then, he has criticized Merkel’s legacy – especially to deal with the migration crisis.

He has very different philosophy for the party, with Merkel as a more practical center and merge from the more traditional, conservative wing of the CDU with Merkel.

Wednesday’s vote broke the forbidden for a long time in German politics – and Merz also proposes the law on Friday that AFD could support.

The current German Chancellor, Olaf Sholaz called the move “unforgivable mistake”.

He said, “Since the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany 75 years ago, there has always been a clear consensus among all the Democrats in our Parliament: we do not make the common reason with the right,” he said.