‘I’m very unhappy’ Angela Merkel admits open-door policy DID cause defeat by far-right
ANGELA Merkel has admitted her hated open door policy on migrants led to her party’s crushing defeat in this weekend’s elections.
Express.co.uk
Mon, Sep 5, 2016
But she basically went on to insist the German people did not know what was good for them and she just had to be more persuasive.
Mrs Merkel’s CDU party was beaten into third place by the right wing Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party in her home state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
CDU could muster only a pitiful 19.2 per cent of the vote compared to the victorious AfD’s 21 per cent, leading to growing scepticism about Merkel’s ability to cling onto power in Germany after her party also lost three elections to the AfD in March.
Today at the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, China, Mrs Merkel conceded the open door policy to migrants had swayed the election but added that she considered the “fundamental decisions” of the refugee policy were correct.
She said the outcome of the state election stands for itself and added: “We must take note that people do not have sufficient confidence in our solution competences. That is why the task is to now work hard to restore confidence. We need to show that we will solve the problems.
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