Posted on 06/16/2018 11:15:14 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel could lose her powerful seat in the heart of Europe as soon as next week amid clashes within her coalition Government over EU migration policies, claimed German MP Kai Whittaker.
Speaking on BBC World at One, the German politician claimed clashes between Angela Merkel and German interior minister Horst Seehofer could result in a "new political situation" in Germany by the end of next week.
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politician said it was still unclear in Berlin what the essence of the disagreement between the Chancellor and Mr Seehofer was and that other members of the coalition had been left "in the blue".
Mr Whittaker said: “We are in a serious situation because the question of the migration crisis evolved into a power question.
“The question is who is leading the Government? Is it Angela Merkel or is it Horst Seehofer?
“Everybody seems to be standing firm and that’s the problem.”
Asked what the German Chancellor and her interior minister are clashing over, he replied: “We don’t know really. There is a master plan to solve the migration crisis, which consists of 63 ideas of Horst Seehofer.
“We don’t know that concept yet, so we are a bit in the blue.
“This must have to do with the coming election in Bavaria because it is vital for the Conservatives to win an overall majority because that’s why they have a national importance.
“This kind of has the potential to diminish the authority of her and Horts Seehofer and it could well be that at the end of next week we have a new situation.
“Probably a new Chancellor.”
Mr Seehofer, of the Christian Social Union (CSU), has often voiced his hostility towards Mrs Merkel’s open border policy, which brought more than a million refugees in the country in 2015.
He pushed for police forces to have the power to turn away undocumented migrants at the border if they are already registered in another European Union country.
But Mrs Merkel opposes to such measure and has held emergency talks with members of her party to look for support.
Despite them pledging to back her, her MPs are also demanding a change in Germany’s “open-door” migration policy.
And CSU MPs already declared they will support their leader, Mr Seehofer.
The rift puts Mrs Merkel in an awkward situation as she is facing a serious challenge to her authority which could limit her ability to negotiate with other EU state members.
And her own position as a Chancellor is under threat because a walkout of CSU MPs from the coalition would see her losing a majority in Parliament.
The plan proposed by Mr Seehofer would replace an already existing EU rule, which allows Germany to send asylum-seekers back to the first member state they entered.
You have to wonder about the mental clarity and ideological underpinnings of a woman born in Hamburg, but whose parents deliberately moved to communist East Germany to raise her.
Ok
I see you embiggend it. I usually only smallify things so as not to screw up the page. As I use my phone 99+% of the time I can embiggen with the touch screen.
But thanks.
Merkel is a conservative in Germany. Isn’t that crazy?
Merkel is Obama.
Maybe it wouldn’t work. Then she’ll see how ‘hood justice goes if she steps on any alien toes or misses a protection payment. Good night.
I’d love to be a fly on Trumps wall when this happens
It won’t happen.
It’s Germany, the country where Obama enjoyed approval rating of 90%
Send her to one of the countries she says are the sources of wonderful people.
That requires Europeans fighting back against the invasion by hordes of homicidal savages.
Get that going as a chant in the streets of Berlin.
Fuhrer Merkel has betrayed every European of the past, the present, and the future.
Anything to end the Merkel reich. Please Germany, fight.
The plan proposed by Mr Seehofer would replace an already existing EU rule, which allows Germany to send asylum-seekers back to the first member state they entered.
Thanks TaxPayer2000.
I am now.
Tommy for PM.
Alice Weidel, an openly *Lesbian* mother of 2 and former economist at Goldman-Sachs is the current leader of the German “Far Right” Party.
Does this automatically discount her? Not necessarily. She’s rather attractive and likable to be honest. But her profile may distance Christians and her party AfD “Alternative for Deutschland” is notoriously anti-Semitic and Neo-Nazi.
In France, Marine Le Pen’s charismatic 28 year old niece, Marion Marechal Le Pen- dropped “Le Pen” from her last name and is planning on creating a new party. The “Front National” party is still too associated with her grandfather: Jean-Marie Le Pen who made his name by being a vocal Holocaust denier.
That’s the kind of baggage European conservatives have to deal with.
“master plan” probably shouldn’t be used in phrases in Europe!
And why 63 ideas?
1. they are forced to leave.
2.........
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