THE CORDON SANITAIRE HAS FALLEN: In Historic First, Anti-Migration Resolution Passes the German Bundestag with Support from Alternative für Deutschland

eugyppius: a plague chronicle ^ | 29 Jan, 2025 | eugyppius

[MtnClimber]

I don’t have the energy to write you a proper post, mainly because I spent all day watching debate in the German Bundestag. I cannot, however, let this moment pass in silence:

Just over an hour ago, an anti-migration resolution proposed by the centre-right CDU passed the Bundestag with the support of Alternative für Deutschland. The vote was 348 in favour and 345 against, with 10 abstentions.

The cordon sanitaire – on life support since Sunday – came down for the very first time. It was an epochal moment. Although the resolution itself is a non-binding measure, the centre-right CDU and CSU have achieved a parliamentary outcome with AfD votes, and that has never happened before. As Green Party Chancellor candidate Robert Habeck said in his speech today, “If you vote with the AfD on this very important issue, on what issue won’t you vote with the AfD?” That is the crux of the matter. This vote suggests that the Influx Limitation Act, up for a vote on Friday, will also pass the Bundestag (if not the Bundesrat), once again with a majority made by the AfD. If we are lucky the cordon sanitaire will come down not once, but twice in the same week.

After today’s vote, the left side of parliament broke out in jeering and booing; SPD representatives became particularly hysterical after their leader, Rolf Mützenich, lamented that the Union had “abandoned the political middle.” That is good. The left have become just a little less powerful, and the events set in motion this afternoon threaten to marginalise them ever further in the years to come.

There will of course be no coalition between the CDU and the populist opposition after this election. The present CDU leadership, including their Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz, are committed enemies of the AfD, however happy they may be to cast themselves as anti-migration hardliners. It is even possible that the CDU throw their weight behind schemes to ban the AfD after the elections in an effort to put the toothpaste back in the tube....SNIP

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Does the AfD oppose the major parties on this issue? It stands to be compelling in Germany's future. There will be a cold Winter, and a fuel-less Germany will not freeze quietly."

From a climate change "propaganda" site complaining about the AfD. Lefties are pushing climate change for all its "worth" meaning grift. This is why the AfD scares them, as does the EU Commission since AfD is EU-skeptical. With reason.

"The far-right populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is Germany's only large party to unequivocally reject any action against climate change - but its impact on the country's efforts has been limited. The AfD has not yet entered national or regional governments, and all established parties have ruled out cooperating with the group. Researchers say the party's influence has mostly been confined to debates, causing further polarisation on climate issues. However, even as part of the opposition, the AfD has started to slow certain climate measures at the regional and local level, making it ;sand in the gears; of the country's energy transition."

Source: Populist AfD “sand in the gears” of German climate efforts Clean Energy Wire -- Journalism for the Energy transition, 24 May 2024

Sand in the gears? A large, steel monkey wrench.

[ckilmer]

another stated position of AFD is to divorce itself from alliance with America and form close alliances, economic as well as geopolitical, with Russia and China.
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In the USA, the new Secretary of Defence has stated that he is against the US continuing in NATO.

The drift on both sides is against NATO for different reasons.

I don’t know what to make of this.

I don’t know if the Russians like being cut off from Europe since their historical ties are to europe. and by being cut off from europe —they’re becoming more of a vassal to china—which the russophiles in Russia like even less than playing second fiddle to europe.

[pepsionice]

You are kinda correct. On relating to int’l events...Mar 1919, is when it gets ‘re-used’.

Originally, it was developed by the French...1821. French used the idea (30k troops in the mix) along the French/Spanish border...originally to prevent Yellow Fever coming from Spain into France. This was a fake agenda...real purpose was to prevent Spanish propaganda/fake agenda...from getting into France (if the story from French sources is true).

Even then, you had to worry about fake news. (Hard to believe fake news from Spain...out-bested....fake news from France).

[citizen]

In this case, I think the referenced political barrier is in place to keep the migrants from being legally expelled and to maintain the influx of new ones.

[alexander_busek]

You are kinda correct.

I was citing its first use in an explicitly military/political (rather than "hygienic") sense.

But thanks for your contribution to the conversation.

Regards,