MERKEL'S INTERIOR MINISTER PUSHED INTO "FAKE REBELLION" BY NATIONALIST THREAT TO HIS POWER BASE

"Hey guys! Look, I'm really trying to stop the migrants, Trust me."

To get any action on immigration from mainstream politicians, it seems you either need to kick them out, as the Italians have done, or else threaten to kick them out, which is what is happening in Germany, where the Interior Minister Horst Seehofer appears to be openly dissenting from the "migrant door mat" position of Chancellor Angela Merkel. 

As reported by Reuters:

German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced a rebellion over migrant policy on Tuesday (12th) that risks destabilising her coalition, just as she is pushing European Union partners to agree a common solution... On Tuesday, some senior members of Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) opted to back her hard-line Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, a Bavarian conservative who has long been a thorn in the chancellor’s side over migration.

Seehofer had been due to announce a “Migrant Masterplan” under which Germany would turn away at its borders those asylum seekers who have already been registered in another European Union state. However, Seehofer had to cancel Tuesday’s presentation of the plan - which envisages fully reversing an open-door policy Merkel announced in 2015 - due to differences with his boss.

The alleged rape and killing of a 14-year-old German girl by an Iraqi man, who was extradited from Iraq on Saturday, has re-ignited the debate on migrants and followed a scandal at a regional office which wrongly granted asylum applications.

14-year-old Susanna Maria Feldman, raped and killed by "Merkel's Marauders."
(Yes, she was Jewish.)

Of course, Seehofer's position is better than Merkel's position, but not much better. What is really needed is the mass repatriation of the 1.6 million fake refugees who flooded into the country after Merkel lifted restrictions in 2015, as well as a few million migrants who arrived beforehand. 

But it is clearly important for Seehofer to signal that he is some sort of immigration "hard-liner" ready to go up against his boss. This is because Seehofer's personal power base is threatened. 

Seehofer, in case you didn't know, is the Chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU), a party that only operates in Bavaria and which works with Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, which operates in the rest of the country. Essentially two separate but largely identical parties that work in a permanent coalition.

While participating in the Federal government is a bonus for the CSU, their real focus is on controlling the Bavarian regional government, as this allows them to run the local gravy train. Usually this is quite an easy thing to do, as Bavaria is a particularly conservative part of Germany. 

For example, in the last Bavarian regional elections in 2013 the CSU won 47.7% of the vote, which was enough to give them 101 out of 180 seats and thus a cosy majority. 

Now all this is threatened by the German voter's dissatisfaction with the migrant crisis and the rise of the anti-immigrant AfD. The next Bavarian regional parliamentary elections will be held this October and things are not looking good for the CSU.

In the latest opinion poll, only 41% of voters support them, with the AfD on 13.5% (it didn't even exist at the previous election). Several other parties contest the rest of the vote, including the Social Democrats (13.4%) and the Greens (12.6%).

If these numbers hold or worsen, the CSU would fail to gain a majority in the Bavarian regional parliament and thus find it harder to dish out the gravy to its friends and supporters. 

This is the reason that Seehofer is desperately trying to signal as a immigration hard liner. My guess is he is doing this with the secret permission of Mutti Merkel. Hopefully Bavaria's voters won't be fooled by this puppet show and will continue to swing to the AfD.

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