I noted out of the German newspaper.....Welt am Sonntag....a short story this morning that has serious political ramifications.
In this election....the FDP is mounting a serious comeback, and most folks are figuring they will come very close to ten-percent of the vote (doubling what they had in the last election).
The big deal in this election is that a new coalition will likely come out of the election.....and it might not be the CDU-CSU and SPD.
So the political chief of the FDP spoke to what he wants...if there is some invitation to the FDP to be part of a coalition....and it's a curious piece of legislation.
He wants a new German immigration law. It has to spell out the differences between asylum, immigration, and migration. He hints that it ought to be able accelerate the process in a fast way (probably to say 'no', you won't get visa-status).
Then he said that if there is some opposition to his idea....he wants a investigation committee on the 2015 period, and how things got all screwed up. In simple terms....another truth-commission.
It's a curious suggestion because no one in the government has ever suggested this. Whenever people talked of 2015, it was always in general terms and something that none of the big political players wanted public discussion over.
In this case, with a whole new cast of characters around Merkel...it's hard to figure how this deal would go. I think the FDP is making a pretty tough situation to build a coalition with them involved. Most think that the Green Party and the FDP....will be the partners to Merkel. In this case, the Greens would stand in the way of both ideas.
Why would it matter breaking the immigration business into pieces? You'd eventually around to a limit or number for each group (asylum people, migrants, and people desiring immigration). This request avoids that topic, but you wouldn't be able to make this fit all together....without some ceiling number in your mind. This might be an interesting meeting where he lays out his demand.
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