Merkel Slammed by Her Own Vice Chancellor as Refugee Crisis Deepens

Friday, October 30, 2015
By Paul Martin

SputnikNews.com
30.10.2015

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been criticized by her own Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, who says he has had enough of the stand-off between Merkel and Bavaria’s President Horst Seehofer over the refugee crisis.

Seehofer has been critical of Merkel’s ‘open doors’ policy, which has led to hundreds of thousands moving across into Europe fleeing warzones including Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. He has vented his anger at both Austria and Merkel over the way the situation has been handled.

Seehofer set Merkel a deadline of November 1 for Berlin to take control of the border issue with Vienna, otherwise “we need to consider what options we have,” he said. Her personal handling of the situation has now led to a crisis within her own grand coalition party. Merkel is the Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) which is politically allied to its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), led by Seehofer.

Now, the German Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel — who is leader of the SPD party which is in coalition with the CDU/CSU alliance — has warned that Merkel’s handling of the crisis and the splits emerging in her Unions party are threatening to stop the basic workings of government.
“This form of mutual blackmail and abuse is unworthy and simply irresponsible,” he told Spiegel Online.

>”The dispute between Horst Seehofer and Angela Merkel would seem bizarre even in normal times. Given the great challenge of our country faces because of the strong influx of refugees, the dispute between the CDU and CSU is now threatening the viability of the Government.”

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