(31 Jan 2025)
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Berlin – 31 January 2025
1. Protesters with banner reading (German) "Merz- disgrace"
2. Protest in front of parliament
3. Banner reading (German) "Worry"
4. Parliament
5. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz talking to Defence Minister Boris Pistorius
6. Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-leader Tino Chrupalla
7. Photographers
8. Leader of Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Friedrich Merz talking to to his party’s parliamentary group leader Thorsten and Free Democratic Party (FDP) parliamentary group leader Christian Duerr
9. Lawmakers clapping
10. Mid of Merz
11. SOUNDBITE (German) Rolf Muetzenich, head of Social Democratic Party (SPD) parliamentary group:
"Ladies and gentlemen, it’s not too late. The fall from grace will be with you forever. But the gateway to hell, yes I say it’s the gateway to hell, we can still close it together. You must built the firewall, you must built up the firewall again, built up the firewall again. At least from today, today our country is toppling! Return to the centre of democracy."
12. AfD lawmakers
13. SOUNDBITE (German) Friedrich Merz, leader of CDU:
"And we should actually, if you look calmly, you realise that it is not you or you or you, but we, as a political party, against whom the furore of this so-called Alternative for Germany is directed most of all. It wants to destroy the CDU. Ladies and gentlemen, surely you don’t seriously believe that we are reaching out to a party that wants to destroy us?’
14. Scholz and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck
15. SOUNDBITE (German) Friedrich Merz, leader of CDU:
"But the people outside, the people outside who are listening and watching us in these turbulent days, they don’t want us to fight amongst ourselves about the AfD. They want us to find solutions. On the issues that concern and occupy people’s everyday lives on a daily basis. And above all, we want to find solutions so that people in our country can feel safe again.’
16. Lawmakers clapping
17. SOUNDBITE (German) Annalena Baerbock, German Foreign Minister:
"Because we all know you don’t need to tear down a firewall with a wrecking ball to set your own house on fire. It’s enough to keep drilling holes. First a motion on Wednesday, then a law today, what’s next?"
18. Cameras
19. SOUNDBITE (German) Bernd Baumann, head of AfD parliamentary group:
"You wanted to lead the way in this country. But then you started dithering and prancing around again and negotiating with the red-green coalition again. For three and a half hours. Every voter must now understand that there can only be a fundamental change in migration policy with the AfD. We are standing firm. Ladies and gentlemen. We are not prancing. We don’t kiss up the red-green coalition. We are overcoming red-green. That is our goal."
20. Lawmakers casting their votes
21. German flag outside parliament
STORYLINE:
The German parliament narrowly rejected Friday an opposition-sponsored bill calling for tougher rules on migration that risked becoming the first draft legislation to pass thanks to a far-right party and became a focus of a controversy about the attitude of the front-runner in Germany’s upcoming election toward the far right.
Opposition leader Friedrich Merz has put demands for a more restrictive approach to migration at the center of his campaign for the Feb. 23 election since a deadly knife attack last week by a rejected asylum-seeker.
The way he has done so prompted opponents to accuse him of breaking a taboo and endangering mainstream parties’ “firewall” against the far-right Alternative for Germany.
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