German Votes Could Persuade Merkel to Change Course on Refugees

Chancellor Angela Merkel

Reuters, 24/02 15:25 CET

By Paul Carrel

RASTATT, Germany (Reuters) – Gerd Mueller has voted for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) for over 40 years. Now he’s having second thoughts.

“I am very irritated,” the 64-year-old said between business appointments in Rastatt, a well-off town of 50,000 near the border with France in Baden-Wuerttemberg, one of three German states holding elections on March 13.

“I don’t feel Frau Merkel is bringing us along with her,” he added, pointing to the German leader’s welcoming stance towards refugees.

Mueller’s frustration is shared by a rising number of voters. Elections next month in this prosperous southern state, its wine-producing neighbour Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony Anhalt in the east will serve as a litmus test of Merkel’s migrant policies ahead of the next federal vote in 2017. 

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Source: Euronews