Social Democrats also threaten to withdraw from Merkel's government

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The German Social Democratic Party (SPD) said on Wednesday that it would not leave the coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel if the conservative bloc plan to establish closed centers for the first time. immigrants along the Austrian border was implemented.

Lars Klingbeyl, secretary general of the SPD, told the ZDF broadcasting organization that "mbad camps for weeks of refugees will not enter the government". The SPD said it needs more time to reflect on the agreement between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Interior Minister Horsta Zehefer on restrictions on the entry of illegal immigrants [19659005] after meeting with Christian Democrats (CDU) The Socialist Party of Christian Socialists (CSU), leader of the SPD, Andrea Nāles, told reporters that progress had been made, but that the party needed more time and that the coalition would meet again on Thursday. As mentioned above, the agreement concluded by Merkel and Zoeferer stipulates that transit centers will be established on German territory at the Austrian border, which will allow the return of these asylum seekers, who have already requested asylum in another Member State of the European Union (EU). Immigrants will not be returned to the border, as originally requested by Saeima, but will be placed in these centers where they will have to stay while their affairs are being processed.

Immigrants who do not meet the criteria for admission to Germany will be returned. An EU country where they have submitted an asylum application if that country is in agreement or Austria, although it is still necessary to conclude an agreement with Wine on the readmission of illegal immigrants. This agreement has not yet been accepted by the partners of the CDU / CSU coalition for Social Democrats (SPD), which until then had a disagreement between the CDU and the CSU in a conflict threatening to provoke the fall of the Merkel government.