ドイツ中道右派、極右と協力 タブー崩壊

【ベルリンＡＦＰ＝時事】総選挙を数週間後に控えるドイツで２９日、中道右派政党「キリスト教民主同盟（ＣＤＵ）」と姉妹政党の「キリスト教社会同盟（ＣＳＵ）」が初めて極右政党「ドイツのための選択肢（ＡｆＤ）」と協力し、政界に激震が走った。背景には、今月発生した刺傷事件で移民をめぐる議論が国内で白熱している状況が挙げられる。（写真は、ドイツの連邦議会〈下院〉で演説する、キリスト教民主同盟〈ＣＤＵ〉のフリードリヒ・メルツ党首〈右〉）
　反対派からは長年のタブーを破ったと批判されているが、ＣＤＵとＣＳＵは、反移民を掲げるＡｆＤと自由主義市場経済の推進を掲げる中道政党「自由民主党（ＦＤＰ）」の支持を得て、物議を醸す動議を賛成３４８、反対３４４、棄権１０の僅差で可決させた。
　今月２４日、２歳児を含む２人が刺殺される事件が発生し、警察は主犯としてアフガニスタン人の男（２８）を逮捕した。
　動議は、中道左派オラフ・ショルツ首相の移民政策を激しく批判。法的拘束力はないが、政府に対し、すべての国境を恒久的に警備し、難民認定申請を希望するかどうかにかかわらず、すべての不法移民の入国を拒否するよう求めている。
　ショルツ氏は議場での激しいやり取りで、次期首相の最有力候補と目されているＣＤＵ党首のフリードリヒ・メルツ氏に対し、ＡｆＤといかなる形であれ協力すれば「許されざる過ち」を犯すことになると警告。
　「７５年以上前にドイツ連邦共和国が建国されて以来、わが国の議会のすべての民主主義者の間には常に明確なコンセンサスがあった。極右とは手を結ばないということだ」と訴えた。
　これに対し、メルツ氏は怒りもあらわに反論。難民認定希望者による流血事件が相次いでいる事態に言及し、「ドイツで他に何が起きる必要があるのか」「あと何人の子どもが暴力行為の犠牲になれば、公共の安全と秩序が脅かされているとあなた方も考えるようになるのか」と訴えた。
　ＡｆＤのアリス・ワイデル共同代表はＸ（旧ツイッター）への投稿で、採決結果を「ドイツにとって歴史的な日、民主主義の勝利」と歓迎した。
　■「悪い兆候」
　ショルツ氏は採決後、「きょうのわれわれの経験を消化するには時間が必要だ。これは悪い兆候だ。議会にとっても、わが国にとっても」とＸに投稿した。
　動議は、「例外なく、すべての不法入国の試みを拒否する」よう求めている。隣接する欧州連合（ＥＵ）加盟国に不法移民が既に入国し、「迫害される心配がない」ことを理由として挙げている。
　さらに、ドイツからの出国を求められている不法滞在者を「直ちに拘束しなければならない」として、収容施設の増設も要請。
　また、難民認定希望者に関する既存のＥＵ規則は「明らかに機能不全」だと断じている。
　動議は一方で、ＡｆＤを批判。「大量の不法移民によって引き起こされた問題、不安、恐怖を利用して外国人嫌悪をあおり、陰謀論を広めている」としている。
　こうした指摘が含まれているにもかかわらず、ＡｆＤは採決で賛成に回り、可決に貢献した。
　動議をめぐっては、ショルツ氏が所属する中道左派政党「社会民主党（ＳＰＤ）」と、緑の党は強く反対していた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2025/01/30-18:12）

Weeks before Germany's elections, a heated immigration debate inflamed by a deadly knife attack triggered a political earthquake Wednesday when conservative parties for the first time cooperated with the far-right AfD.
In what was decried by opponents as a breach of a long-standing taboo, the opposition CDU-CSU relied on backing from the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to pass a controversial resolution through the national parliament.
Together, and with backing from the smaller FDP, they narrowly passed a toughly-worded motion that harshly attacked the immigration policy of embattled centre-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz ahead of February 23 elections.
Though it lacked the force of law, the motion called on the government to permanently police all borders and deny entry to all irregular migrants, whether they claim asylum or not.
Emotions are raw after a knife attack killed two people, including a two-year-old child, in Bavaria last Friday. Police have arrested a 28-year-old Afghan man as the main suspect.
In heated exchanges in the chamber, Scholz had told his election rival, frontrunner Friedrich Merz, that any cooperation with the AfD would be an unforgivable mistake.
Scholz told parliament that since the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany over 75 years ago, there has always been a clear consensus among all democrats in our parliaments: we do not make common cause with the far right.
Merz angrily fired back at Scholz, recalling a series of bloody attacks blamed on asylum seekers and demanded: What else needs to happen in Germany?
How many more children have to become victims of such acts of violence before you also believe there is a threat to public safety and order?
The AfD's top candidate, Alice Weidel, cheered the outcome of the vote in a message on X, calling it a historic day for Germany, a victory for democracy.
- 'Bad sign' -
In the vote, conservative and far-right lawmakers, also backed by the liberal Free Democrats (FDP), passed the resolution with 348 votes in favour and 344 against, with 10 abstentions.
Afterwards, Scholz posted on X that he would need some time to process what we have experienced together today... That is a bad sign. For the parliament. And also for our country.
The resolution calls for the rejection of all attempts to enter the country illegally without exception because in the neighbouring EU countries they arrive from, they are already safe from persecution.
The resolution also argues that people required to leave Germany must be taken into custody immediately, adding that more detention centres should be built.
It labelled as clearly dysfunctional the existing EU regulations on asylum seekers.
The motion also criticised the AfD, which it accused of using the problems, worries and fears caused by mass illegal migration to stir up xenophobia and spread conspiracy theories.
Despite this clause, the AfD voted in support of the resolution, helping it to pass despite the strong opposition of Scholz's Social Democrats and the Greens.
- 'Poisoned climate' -
Scholz had urged the CDU not to accept support from those who fight our democracy, who despise our united Europe, and who have been poisoning the climate in our country for years.
This is a serious mistake -- an unforgivable mistake.
Merz, despite growing pushback also from human rights groups and churches, had argued the situation is so dire that he would take whatever support he could get.
After the vote, protesters angered at the CDU accepting the AfD's support demonstrated outside the centre-right party's headquarters in Berlin, waving banners that read: Stop the hate.
My main feeling is anger -- I'm very outraged, Eva, a 56-year-old protester who gave only her first name, told AFP.
The vote came after Germany was stunned by news last Friday that a man attacked a kindergarten group with a kitchen knife in the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg.
The attacker killed a two-year-old Moroccan boy and a German man who tried to shield the toddlers, and wounded three more people, including a two-year-old Syrian girl.
Police arrested a 28-year-old Afghan suspect, who was later transferred to a closed psychiatric institution.
In December a Saudi man drove a car through a crowded Christmas market in Magdeburg, and there were also deadly stabbing attacks last year blamed on Syrian and Afghan men.