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Friedrich Merz, the candidate for the Chancellery of German Christian Democrats (CDU), may have played his political destiny in one day. Three weeks before the legislative elections of February 23, the favorite of polls, presented as the probable successor to the social democrat Olaf Scholz at the head of the federal government, hoped to demonstrate firmness in the Bundestag, Friday, January 31.

The former rival of Angela Merkel within the CDU aims to rely on the votes of the extreme right to have a bill adopted aimed at restricting immigration, to harden the conditions of family reunification and to facilitate The placement of undocumented foreigners in retention centers. In vain.

The text was presented in the wake of a deadly knife attack, perpetrated on January 22 in Aschaffenburg (Bavaria) by an Afghan refugee in illegal situations and who had killed two. Despite the opposition of the Social Democratic Party and the Greens, the majority seemed acquired. A motion presented two days earlier on the same subject had indeed been adopted thanks to the votes of the extreme right alternative party für Deutschland (AFD).

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