At a recent campaign event in Brandenburg, Alice Weidel, co-chair of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), emphasized her party's tough stance on immigration, arguing for a comprehensive border fence and an immediate halt to new immigration and naturalizations for five years. With Brandenburg's pivotal elections approaching on September 22, Weidel's rhetoric reflects growing public anxiety over migration-related crime and the political fallout from recent events, including a tragic incident involving a Syrian migrant. As the AfD gains traction in the polls, her proposals resonate with a populace increasingly frustrated with the current government's handling of border security and immigration.
RE: At a regional campaign event in Brandenburg, Alternative for Germany Co-chairman Alice Weidel spoke in front of several hundred guests, with the focus of her speech on blocking the massive influx of migrants, with one of her key policy proposals being a border fence for Germany.
“Border security goes through border fences, it’s as simple as that,” said Weidel. Brandenburg will hold key elections on Sept. 22.
In the Bundestag, Weidel also made the same demand, saying that “hundreds of thousands of poorly integrated young men on our streets could raise the question of power at any time.”
🇩🇪‼️ BREAKING:Germany's AfD party co-leader, Alice Weidel, calls for a COMPLETE STOP to immigration and naturalizations for 5 YEARS.This is one of the strictest proposals on immigration from any party in Europe.The call comes in the wake of a Syrian migrant murdering 3… pic.twitter.com/h2SR2s1fkG— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) August 26, 2024
Although the idea of a border fence was once smeared as taboo, border fences are now seen across Europe. For example, in the case of Poland, which built one along its border with Belarus due to the migrant crisis, Warsaw even received money from the EU to finance the fence.
Weidel said it is now time for Germany to build such a fence. With the majority of Germans saying migrants bring more disadvantages than benefits, and the vast majority of Germans wanting to block immigration from Muslim countries, Weidel’s message may prove a winning one. In recent months, a wave of Islamic terror attacks, coupled with soaring knife crime, rape, and violence, has sent the political establishment into a tailspin.
Far-left Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, known for her open borders policies, has now been forced to go so far as to announce she will enact border controls, all with an eye on elections in Brandenburg.
Weidel hopes that the state elections in Brandenburg in a week and a half will mark a turning point in the nation’s history, which may force the collapse of the current far-left ruling coalition.
“What we need are new elections,” said Weidel at a campaign appearance in Forst (Lausitz). If Brandenburg’s Minister-President Dietmar Woidke (SPD) “is thrown out here, if the SPD loses the whole thing, then I predict that something will start to slip in the SPD,” Weidel said. “Then we’ll have new elections.”
She also called for immediate peace negotiations for Ukraine and an end to arms deliveries, for which she also received much applause. In the elections in Saxony and Thuringia on Sept. 1, the AfD scored over 30 percent in each case, and became the strongest party in Thuringia.
The AfD wants to become the strongest force in the state elections in Brandenburg on September 22. It has been leading in the polls so far, with 27 percent, ahead of the SPD with 23 percent in the latest RBB poll by Infratest dimap.