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Bavarian PM to discuss ‘serious’ migrant issue with Merkel before joint
election push

   Published time: 5 Jan, 2017 01:07Edited time: 5 Jan, 2017 01:24
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   Bavarian PM to discuss ‘serious’ migrant issue with Merkel before joint
   election push
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   Bavarian leader Horst Seehofer has said there’s still unresolved issues
   to be discussed with his ally, Chancellor Angela Merkel, before
   campaigning stars for the next elections.
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   “We still need to discuss some things and then we will go into the
   election together,” the Bavarian Prime Minister and leader of the
   German Christian Social Union (CSU) party said on Wednesday.
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   Speaking at the opening of his party's annual January retreat, Seehofer
   reiterated his idea of capping the refugee influx at 200,000 per year,
   insisting that “this is serious.”

   The CSU leader had previously warned Merkel and her Christian Democrats
   (CDU) party that he would leave the alliance after the elections unless
   the desired changes to the country’s migrant policy were made.

   A “reconciliation summit” with Merkel in February was still on the
   table but the agenda was yet to be finalized, according to Seehofer.
   “This country is polarized and divided and it must be the task of all
   democrats to lead their country together,” the CSU leader said.

   Merkel and Seehofer’s meeting was scheduled after each of them stayed
   away from their party’s respective conferences last year. The tone of
   Seehofer’s remarks appears to re-consolidate their alliance, but the
   main stumbling block still remain, as the CDU and CSU seek to find
   consensus over Germany’s migrant policy.

   The CSU leader again criticized Merkel’s open-door policy, which
   allowed over 1 million of migrants into Germany since mid-2015. With
   elections looming, Seehofer attacked the Chancellor’s refugee policy,
   claiming that it only helps the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD)
   party and is “only going to make the AfD stronger.”
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   The debate over Germany’s migrant policy was re-ignited after the
   attack in Berlin, when a refugee of Tunisian origins rammed a truck
   into a Christmas fair killing 12 people and injuring 56 others. After
   the attack, Merkel’s interior minister proposed a number of measures to
   tighten security, such as centralizing Germany’s security agencies.
   Currently, each of the 16 German federal states has its own.

   “We have an obligation to the victims and those affected [by the Berlin
   terrorist attack] as well as to the whole nation to rethink and reshape
   our whole immigration and security policy,” Seehofer said in the
   aftermath of the attack as cited by Die Welt daily.

   Seehofer has rejected the interior ministry’s proposal and in December
   called for the powers for the domestic intelligence agencies and police
   forces to be expanded instead. The CSU has circulated a document
   entitled, “Security for our Freedom,” which was reportedly to be
   discussed at the party’s retreat.The party wants security forces to
   arrest migrants who potentially pose a “public danger” and expel them.
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