{"id":89916,"date":"2025-02-02T22:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T22:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/scores-expected-in-berlin-to-protest-against-far-right\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T22:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T22:56:12","slug":"scores-expected-in-berlin-to-protest-against-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/scores-expected-in-berlin-to-protest-against-far-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Scores expected in Berlin to protest against far-right"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Berlin on Sunday braced for scores of demonstrators to converge on the German capital to protest against the country\u2019s conservatives\u2019 norm-shattering overtures<\/a> toward the far-right.<\/p>\n

Organisers expect tens of thousands of people to turn up at 3:30pm (14:30 GMT) outside the Bundestag, Germany\u2019s parliament building, and march towards the headquarters of the conservative CDU party.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, more than 220,000 people already marched in cities across the country, including Hamburg, Leipzig, Cologne or Stuttgart, according to figures compiled by public broadcaster ARD<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Calls for protests began after conservatives of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) sought the support of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) for a bill in parliament last week, less than a month ahead of a snap federal election.<\/p>\n

Since the end of World War II, German parties have had an unwritten agreement not to work with the far-right at the national level.<\/p>\n

But CDU chief Friedrich Merz, frontrunner ahead of the February 23 election<\/a>, sought the parliamentary support of the far-right AfD this week.<\/p>\n

The two parties successfully passed a non-binding resolution on Wednesday in an attempt to block undocumented foreigners at the border, including asylum seekers. On Friday, they failed to pass another contentious bill<\/a> to further restrict immigration.<\/p>\n

Merz launched his all-out immigration crackdown after police arrested an Afghan man following a deadly knife attack<\/a> a week ago against a group of kindergarten children.<\/p>\n

He \u201cwants to cut through\u201d the norm of not working with \u201cright-wing extremists in one fell swoop\u201d, said left-wing NGO Campact, one of the organisers of protests in Berlin. Many trade unions, civil society and human rights groups, churches and environmental activists have answered the call.<\/p>\n

Centre-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz has warned that the conservatives and the far-right could soon join forces to govern the country, as has been the case in other countries.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Berlin on Sunday braced for scores of demonstrators to converge on the German capital to protest against the country\u2019s conservatives\u2019 norm-shattering overtures toward the far-right. Organisers expect tens of thousands of people to turn up at 3:30pm (14:30 GMT) outside the Bundestag, Germany\u2019s parliament building, and march towards the headquarters of the conservative CDU party. 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