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The coalition parties have emerged with significant majorities behind the UN pact on migration. Members of both governments voted Tuesday in Berlin for a joint motion for a resolution on the pact, on which the Bundestag is expected to vote on Thursday.
There were five opposing votes and three abstentions at the meeting of the Union and the document was adopted almost unanimously by the SPD. The vote in the Union was preceded by a long discussion "in a harmonious atmosphere," he said. At the same time, concerns about the covenant had been expressed, but some of them had been invalidated. According to information from parliamentary groups, the SPD would have had only one dissenting vote.
The motion generally welcomes the UN agreement backed by Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU). At the same time, the document states: "The national sovereignty of Germany is not to be taken". The motion is also seen as a sign against erroneous statements in the factions of the coalition.
Participants in the Union meeting said that the Interior Minister and head of the CSU, Horst Seehofer, had also campaigned in detail for the pact and the motion. On Thursday, the Bundestag wants to vote in addition to the coalition proposal on the proposals of the opposition factions of the FDP, the Greens and the AfD to the pact on migration.
The petition calls on the federal government to continue to ensure that the pact does not undermine national sovereignty and the right of Germany to determine its own migration policy. The motion also states that Germany is more responsible for migration than other countries, including the European Union. "We want to change that – including a fair distribution."
He adds: "In spite of the important social efforts and the impressive civic engagement, the limits of the integration become visible in our country". The pact is therefore also in the interest of Germany.
"It also disenchants some myths"
An additional statement from the federal government with clarifications, as had been asked in part, the Union deputies did not do. "What is stronger than a motion for a resolution approved by a majority vote of the German Bundestag," said the head of parliament, Ralph Brinkhaus. The application explains everything there is to explain. "It disenchanted some myths."
According to participants in the meeting, CSU national group leader Alexander Dobrindt said he was "tired of the false statements of the right-wing panic maker" – and opposed it. It was quoted as follows: "We must take AFD out of the right networks, place them in the Bundestag, refute their false statements and expel them from our German parliament."
The union leader, Ralph Brinkhaus, congratulated himself even before the deliberations of the deputies that resulted in the agreement of the SPD on the motion. "We want to limit migration, regulate and control," he said. For this, the United Nations Pact on Migration offers "a starting point".
However, the vice of the SPD faction, Rolf Mützenich, also spoke of the need for talks between coalition partners. "It took us several days to communicate," he said.
The demand should now be debated and put to the vote with opposition group motions Thursday in the Bundestag. The CDU also wants to use the parliamentary resolution as the basis of a ruling motion for its federal party convention in early December.
The asylum must not be touched
The coalition's proposal also stresses that the individual's fundamental right to asylum remains intact. The CDU party's presidential candidate, Friedrich Merz, sparked a debate on the asylum law. Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn, also a presidential candidate for the CDU, has welcomed the fact that the CDU party congress must now discuss the pact, as he asked.
Clearly behind the pact on migration, as well as the UN refugee pact, also planned, the Greens rose again. "We think it's good that these agreements exist," said group president Katrin Göring-Eckardt. However, the pact must be "then implemented in Germany".
Sahra Wagenknecht, leader of the faction against the migration pact turned to the left. It goes "beyond the heart of the problem" to counter migration and its causes, she said in Berlin. The migration of skilled workers also increases poverty in the countries of origin.
AfD Parliamentary Director Bernd Baumann urged the federal government to issue a UN-level protocol before the adoption of the pact on migration, thereby guaranteeing "the non-binding nature of the pact".
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