Monday, February 19, 2024

Classical Liberals Threaten To Split German Coalition Government Over Benefit Payments To Migrants

 

German citizens protest against mass influx of 'Asylum Seekers' (Picture: Financial Times)

The German coalition government, a dysfunctional alliance of  centre (Free Democrtats aka FDP) far left (SDP) and loony left (Green) cobbled together by the EU for the sole purpose of keeping the Eurosceptic Alternatif fur Deutschland (AfD) party out of government, is on increasingly shaky ground, with the Free Democrats (FDP) warning that they could pull out of the three-way coalition if the Green party blocks a new rule mandating benefit cards instead of cash payments to migrants. The pro - business FDP and the Maoist Greens are as far apart as it is possible to be and were never going to be able to work together.

The current head-butting contest is about a disagreement over a propsoal to limit how welfare payments to migrants ,any be spent by issuing debit cards which can only be used to purchase goods, rather than paying migrants, many of whom entered the county illegally, in cash  While the Greens argue that ending the current cash payments would be discriminatory, the Free Democrats, which are the smallest party in the government, are under pressure to stand up to the pro-migration policies being promoted by the ultra - left Greens and the Social Democrats (SPD).

“If the Greens actually torpedo this minimally invasive intervention in the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act, that will raise questions about the continuation of the coalition,” said deputy FDP chairman Wolfgang Kubicki.

The Greens, in turn, say that any push to implement a move away from cash payments would endanger the alliance.

Municipal government in some German cities have already introduced the so calleed welfare payment cards in place of  cash due to the enormous amounts of cash being sent abroad by migrants, but there are fears these local arrangements could be overturned by legal action. Currently, the federal law, the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act, stipulates that benefits to migrants are paid out “primarily as a cash benefit.” The FDP wants to change paragraph three of this act to ensure the majority of payments are delivered by card, which is traceable and would prevent the money from flowing out of Germany.

There are also concerns that cash handed over to migrants is being used to buy drugs, prostitutes, and for other illicit purposes.

The FDP has always been the weakest link in the coalition as has been widely  reported in European news, since joining the coalition the party has seen its support plummet as it has repeatedly had to vote for extremist laws pushed by the Greens, that have offended the principles of its core voters. In spite of this the FDP’s coalition partners may be gambling on the FDP’s threat being bluff, as any dissolution of the coalition would spark early elections, in which the FDP could face a political reckoning.

Recent regional elections in Berlin and other areas have shown the FDP’s support drop dramatically. In repeat elections in select parts of Berlin, FDP dropped below the 5 percent hurdle,while the AfD, in spite of being smeared by accusations of being far right and a threat to democracy continue to gain popularity and will only become more popular as the left's attempts to intimidate then become more open and include threats of violence.

A successful entrepreneur who was running for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in district elections announced he is withdrawing his candidacy due to serious threats to his family, writing in a press release, "This should not happen in a democracy."

Forty-year-old Matthias Beerbaum cited “threats against and danger to” his family as his reason for stepping down., although he did not give specific details. He said the decision was not easy but he did could not run if it meant endangering his family.

The threats against the Beerbaum family come at a time when the media and the government have irresponsibly and dishonestly compared the AfD to the Nazi party and claimed the party is “anti-democratic.” Many within the left-liberal ruling coalition are now calling for a complete ban on the opposition party due to its popularity in the polls. At the same time, the country’s far-left interior minister, Nancy Faeser, has called to shut down bank accounts for those who donate to “extremist” right-wing parties and, in conjunction with the federal police and the Office of the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), plans to initiate a series of new laws to target the opposition.

All of this, as well as showing the lengths to which left wing parts will go to shut down an opposition movement that is actually listening to the concerns of ordinary |German citizens, actually outs the coalition parties as heirs to the Nazi tradition, it is they who, like Hitler's National Socialists, are shutting down political opposition, suppressing free speech and abusing power in the manner favoured by authoritarian tyrants since the beginnings of civilisation. 


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