Sunday, August 8th, 2021
Theses on gender and migration
Merz attacks the Greens hard
The election campaign ripples on rather than actually fighting – but now CDU politician Merz is on the wall. He attacks the Greens for their plans for immigration and equality.
The CDU politician Friedrich Merz attacked the Greens for their alleged plans on migration and other issues: “A green” Immigration Ministry “should invite as many immigrants as possible to Germany regardless of their ability to integrate,” wrote Merz on Twitter and in a post on “Focus online “. The “gender language should be imposed on all of us and the country should be covered with new rules of conduct, taxes and duties”.
The Greens want to bundle issues relating to equality and participation in a separate ministry. “To this end, we will separate the tasks of the immigration society from the Ministry of the Interior,” says the election manifesto. The federal managing director of the Greens, Michael Kellner, told the editorial network Germany (RND) on Saturday about the allegations of Merz: “The whole thing is quite confused.” Kellner added: “I would like Friedrich Merz to try it with his own suggestions – then we’d like to argue about it.” In the reactions on Twitter, numerous commentators accused Merz of lies and AfD-like polemics.
The Deputy Greens leader Ricarda Lang wrote on Twitter: “For the Union, people with a migration history are only part of this society when it fits, and as soon as things go bad, they are instrumentalized as an enemy.” CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak had rejected the idea of a ministry for immigration issues. “We do not need a green multi-cultural ministry in which left activists implement their agenda. We have to organize and control migration effectively,” wrote Ziemiak on Twitter.
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