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Arif Haidary, who did not come to Germany 10 years ago, has difficulty understanding the historical change in the voting on Sunday.
“The election is very bad,” he said.
When Haidary came to Germany in 2015, Angela Merkel was Chancellor and referred to as a model to greet the country’s refugees. While the rest of Europe closes its boundaries, Germany has opened more than one million refugees In 2015.
But the times have changed.
The center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU / CSU), which occupies a tough position on migration by promising POM “Fundamental” overhaul Shelter rules and border controlIn the last weekend elections, 29 percent of the votes hit.
Alternative for retaining Germany (AFD) Call of competition (Deportation of people in the background of migrants), 20.8 percent, the highest score from the end of the Second World War.
Clock | Two parties in the German elections claim victory:
In Germany, Friedrich elected the Conservative Christian Democratic Association (CDU) in Sunday Sunday, but the right alternative to Germany (AFD) records the second place. Andrew Chang, the new coalition government breaks the makeup, the formation of the CDU and the profit of the AFD. Reuters, Getty Images and Images provided by the Canadian Press.
Election Chancellor Olaf Scholz, after the collapse of the coalition government, was made after a confidence voted last year.
Immigration, especially after a number of attacks, was the priority of voters Afghan refugee drove a car to the crowd of a car during a demonstration in Munich Two weeks ago, kill a mother and child.
Munich night, “I received so many racist messages, killing many people, killing many people,” Haidary, the vice-president of the Munich Migration Council.
“Unfortunately, a large part of this is the sin of politicians – often trying to summarize this issue, and all Afghans are trying to look even worse. Every refugee is afraid.”
Fear of deportation
Friedrich Merz, who looks Launch German Chancellor After Winning Party, you should now try to create a coalition to manage.
Although Merz exits an alliance with many right, many recalls that a few weeks before the parliament subordinate the support of AFD a few weeks. It was first in the country used to protect the “Firewall” from the right.
The union caused Mass demonstrations across the country.
The term “competition” was part of the rhetoric during the election campaign.
Leader Alice Weidel, AFD in relation to a Sri Lankan-born woman An election campaign in the style of one-sided plane tickets to send a migrant house.
“I’m very worried,” said Cameron Kakande, Ugandan refugee who fled the wrongdoing in his country four years ago. “They say that all the people with migrant rear plans will be perhaps the country. I’m one of those people. But Uganda is not a safe place for me.”
Considered in Uganda 2slgbtq + one of the most dangerous countries for peoplethat risk the death penalty.
“It’s not my first choice to come to Germany, for the language and everything, maybe I would go to the United States or Canada. But when your life is in danger, he said,” Kakande said.
In 2021, he was able to get a visa for Germany to fly there. Since then, Kakande has been working as a HIV activist in NGOs, learned the language and studied the feelings of integration. But now it is also afraid of more discrimination.
“You can see those who have no problems with refugees, but those who begin to hear all this (political) narratives are the changes in their mindset.
Industriousness
Germany applied temporary land boundary restrictions in recent months and began to return people to Afghanistan. The first since the return of the Taliban’s power.
“The next four years, it will be very difficult for people who have a history of refugee and migration. These people will no longer be comfortable and more deported,” he said. Haidary.
At the same time, the German economy is in crisis after a decline for two years and needs more labor with an elderly population.
“We have 400,000 vacant work every year. As in medical care, such people who want to work in sectors,” the founder of refugees in Munich, the founder of NGOs, the founder of NGOs, Munich.
For example, around 10,000 Syrians work in German hospitalsAccording to the Syrian society for doctors and pharmacies in Germany.
Juno, who trusts in public subsidies, is trying to find new donors because he was afraid of financing change.
“I think that the government will reduce social assistance for refugees and will be less money for integration projects and NGOs,” he said. Coy. “If you are down, people really don’t have a chance to start a new life here.”
Questions for 2slgbtq + rights?
The 2slgbtq + community is also concerned about seeing their rights.
For example, the Merz Party and the oath of abolition of AFD The law of self-determinationFacilitating people to change their gender with the official notes of people.
“Although the sentences about hell are not a good sign in the Hell, and the US President, the BCIs are a good sign,” Munich Aids-Hilfe, a NGO that serves people living with 2slgbtq + society and HIV.
He says that the current discussion is in a state of society, in a sudden time that Germany faced an increase in violence against 2slgbtq + people.
“My biggest concern is for trans people. We know that they are already engaged in depression, psychological problems and high suicide.” “Populism is never good for suicide. I’m really worried.”
AFD’s manifesto for the final election sets the family as a “Father, mother and children“This is protected from the depicts of minors as” trans religious, early sexualization and gender ideology. ”
Vicky Voyage, a drag queen from Munich, says he has already seen a change.
“Now when a driver’s watch for the kids, people who have come to protest against the library and said they said that young people were pedophiles and sexualized.
Protesters “just don’t understand what is a safe place for Queer children.”
In recent months, WEIDEL has sued allies, known for its strong position against 2slgbtq + rights. This includes a great power of the US government named after the CEO of Tesla Elon Musk and the President Donald Trump. Musk blamed “Awakening mind virus” for the transgender daughter’s passage.
“I thought it would not be a situation like that in the United States, but the populism of America now came to Europe and worsens, worse,” he said. As a recent warning, the last German election sees the results.
“If the next government fails in the next four years, AFD will grow further. And there is a real risk that this will come to power.”
