The future of the Merkel coalition in doubt while the Interior Minister proposes to resign »Manila Bulletin News

By Agence France-Presse

The ruling coalition of German Chancellor Angela Merkel was facing an uncertain future, while her conservative conservative Inside offered resignation after weeks of struggle to change opinion on the politics of migrants

Horst Seehofer told the other leaders of the Bavarian Conservative Party CSU that he wanted to resign his position as party leader and interior minister, saying that He had "no support". The head of the CSU parliamentary group, Alexander Dobrindt, "does not want to accept the resignation of Seehofer," said the participants at the rally that lasted for hours.

The lack of clarity in the Bavarian camp raises questions about the resignation of Seehofer. the future of the coalition coalition between the CDU-CSU alliance and the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD)

If Seehofer resigns, the CSU could propose a minister of the Interior alternatively if she wants to remain linked to Merkel's CDU party Alternatively, she could break the decades-long partnership between the two parties, depriving Angela Merkel of her majority in parliament and placing Germany in unexplored political waters.

Rkel could attempt a minority government, seek a new coalition partner in the Greens or Free Democrats pro-business ecologist, or orchestrate a vote of confidence in parliament that could spark new elections.

Meanwhile, the CDU on Sunday offered its sister CDU Secretary-General Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told Berlin that party leaders were "united" behind "effective, efficient and effective means". human solutions with our European partners.

"Secondary Migration"

After the relentless pressure of the Bavarians on Merkel, European leaders on Friday agreed new measures to reduce immigration into the EU. "secondary migration" asylum seekers between countries

Merkel, who has been in power since 2005, warned last week that the issue of migration could decide the future The leaders said that they would consider to set up "landing platforms" outside the EU, probably in North Africa, to discourage migrants and refugees from boarding contraband boats.

could also establish treatment centers to determine whether newcomers have returned home as economic migrants or admitted as refugees in consenting states.

At the national level, Merkel also proposed that migrants arriving in Germany be registered in another EU country. She is placed in special "admission centers" under restrictive conditions, according to a document she sent to the CSU and the Socialists

The document also describes agreements with 16 other countries to return migrants already registered in Germany

. Sources said that Seehofer rejected Merkel's assessment that EU-wide measures would "have the same effect" as her request to deny asylum seekers to the EU. borders.

This left him only three options.

He could defy his orders by ordering the border police to execute his plan, which would require him to fire him and almost certainly disperse the CDU. If the CDU and CSU parties crouched in Berlin and Munich, leaders on both sides sought to clarify what was at stake.

"It's not a question of who," Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Soeder told CSU, according to the DPA news agency

Meanwhile for Angela's troops Merkel, "the image of the country, our ability to act and our ability to" Merkel-bashing "

The frantic diplomacy of the Chancellor at the last minute was ultimately motivated by fear of the CSU to lose its trust. Absolute majority beloved in Bav

The "Free State", with its alpine traditions of beer and beer, its powerful industries and its impenetrable dialect, has a more conservative penchant than other German regions.

But CSU and the CDU form a center Political stability was turned upside down by Merkel's decision in 2015 to keep borders open to migrants and refugees arriving from the Middle East via the Balkans, Hungary and the United States. Austria.

One million people have arrived in Germany, while the Merkel governments have repeatedly tightened the immigration and asylum laws.

Nevertheless, the Alternative Anti-Refugee and Anti-Islam for Germany was propelled into the federal parliament for the first time by indignation over immigration, leading to months of of paralysis as Merkel struggled to build a viable coalition.

Opinion polls point to the AfD making such a spectacular spectacle The entrance of the Bavarian regional parliament in October

however did not help the CSU, as the 39, showed a poll Forsa last week, according to which nearly 68% of Bavarians were in favor of a European response. to migration rather than Germany alone