Members of the SPD parliamentary group express criticism of the stricter migration policy. Is the SPD leadership now losing support in the party?
There is massive criticism in the SPD parliamentary group of the comprehensive border controls and the planned tightening of migration policy. This emerges from a response from 35 members of the parliamentary group to an open letter. In this, several Social Democrats called on the SPD representatives in the federal government and the Bundestag to defend the right to asylum and protect human rights.
The response from the 35 parliamentarians said: “We share your sadness, your anger and your doubts in view of the current discourse.” And: “We also consider the course that the SPD is currently taking in migration and asylum policy to be wrong.” Although we understand the desire for more security, especially after the terrorist attack on the city festival in Solingen, and we welcome reforms to gun law, security policy issues should not be inadmissibly mixed with migration policy.
The open letter states: “The SPD must never take up and thereby normalize the anti-human narratives and positions of right-wing parties.” The signatories include Hakan Demir, Rasha Nasr and Carmen Wegge. For their part, the members of the Bundestag wrote that they were grateful that their party friends had provided support and contradicted the “reflexive call for a tougher approach to migration policy.” The number of people who signed the open letter has now risen to more than 12,000 party members.
