- Weidel proposes implementing a minimum immigration halt spanning over five years.
AfD chairman Alice Weidel proposes a "temporary halt to immigration and naturalization for at least five years." If the AfD gained power, borders would be secured and controlled, she affirmed at an AfD rally in Bautzen before the Saxony state election. She's been fed up with "meaningless talk" and "juvenile banter" ever since Solingen.
In the suspected Islamist attack at Solingen's city festival on a Friday evening, three individuals were stabbed to death, while eight more were wounded by the 26-year-old Syrian suspect, Issa Al H., now in custody. The Federal Prosecutor's Office is probing him, among other things, for murder and suspected involvement in Islamic State (IS) terrorism.
Weidel painted a grim picture of Germany's predicament. There's been a weakening of internal security and daily "stabbing incidents." The AfD aims to halt the "loss of control" and prevent "government collapse." A sustainable immigration and asylum policy overhaul is required, she added. Weidel also criticized the coronavirus policy, stating that those in power lied. She threatened: "Those in charge should beg for forgiveness on their knees." The AfD will press charges.
Weidel, like her co-chairman Tino Chrupalla before her, expressed optimism about the upcoming state elections in Saxony, Thuringia, and Brandenburg. "We need a second 1989," she said, referring to the collapse of the East German DDR. If the AfD seized power, "misguided policies" would end. "We want to take responsibility."
Chrupalla advocated for a policy shift towards brown coal, nuclear power, and Russian gas in energy policy. The AfD proposed starting an investigation committee in the Bundestag on the Ukrainian gas pipeline attacks. Concurrently, he committed the Saxon AfD state association, which the Constitutional Protection Agency has classified as an established right-wing extremist undertaking, to power change. Achieving 35 percent plus X percentage of the votes on Sunday is necessary for this.
However, the other parties currently represented in the state parliament have declined to form a coalition with the AfD, leaving no realistic power option for them.
According to Saxony's AfD chair Jörg Urban, the objective is to give the CDU in the Free State a red card. The CDU is not the solution to the issues, but their cause, he asserted. The citizens have finally woken up, and they will no longer be tricked into deep sleep. It's about a fundamental political change in direction. "The AfD no longer wants to be in opposition. We aim to govern," Urban proclaimed.
In Saxony, a new state parliament will be elected on Sunday. In polls, the CDU and AfD have been dead even for weeks.
Weidel emphasized the necessity of securing and controlling the borders to prevent further "stabbing incidents" and regain control, proposing a temporary halt to immigration and naturalization. If the AfD gained power, they aim to overhaul the immigration and asylum policy and implement a sustainable building of secure borders.
