Tens of thousands protest against Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats: Merz had presented parliament with proposals for strict new immigration rules, which were supported by the partly far-right AfD.
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00:00Tens of thousands took to the streets across Germany over the weekend to show their opposition
00:07to CDU leader Merz's planned tightening of migration policy and the joint vote by the
00:14CDU with the AfD in the Bundestag.
00:17According to local media, Sunday afternoon saw a gathering of up to 160,000 people in
00:23Berlin.
00:24An angry protester said that you do not play with Nazis.
00:55Merz has been accused by protesters and politicians on the left of breaking a taboo and endangering
01:03mainstream parties' firewall against the far-right AfD, but Merz insists his position is unchanged
01:10and that he didn't and won't work with the party.
01:13Polls show the centre-right union, which put forward the migration proposal and bill, is
01:18leading with around 30% support, while the AfD is second with about 20% and the Social
01:25Democrats and Greens further down.