The AfD presented on Monday their approach to asylum and development policy. Refugees should remain in “protection centres” in Africa. Einordungen of the political scientist Werner Patzelt in the DW-Interview.
The AfD lead candidate Alexander Gauland(li.) and Alice ryegrass (re.) at the launch of their asylum concept in Berlin
Deutsche Welle: The AfD calls for in your in Berlin, presented the asylum concept is the creation of “asylum centres in a sufficiently stable North African States”. You want to work with the UNHCR, refugee work of the United Nations. To what extent is this involvement a kind of a new political “cozies” of the party?
Werner Patzelt: At its core, this is nothing New. The AfD has repeatedly called for, to stop the influx of refugees to Europe and Germany, or at least limit. After the emigration pressure in Africa will increase due to the foreseeable developments in the next few years is tremendous, and needs it soon buffer institutions for the reception of refugees, if you want to, you can not only reach Europe. In this respect, the AfD has only presented a practical implementation of their fundamental desire. The UNHCR is brought into the game, is obvious, because this is for refugees is responsible, and the Problem of Migration can only be solved in the framework of the United Nations.
The border protection researcher Arezo Malakooti of the international organization for Migration (IOM) is holding such refugee centres in North Africa for a little realistic. To what extent is the AfD is aware of the plans, which have hardly any chances of Realization?
Political Scientist Werner Patzelt
In the case of politically experienced people, and I assume that they are, their statements also by tactical Considerations. However, all is not what today seems impossible tomorrow impossible. A management of international migration crises will not be without the United Nations. Therefore, the UNHCR comes unavoidably into play. The AfD, which connects the tactical to Argue with a rational approach.
According to the AfD, to the Mediterranean sea route from the 1. September will be made to complete the sealing. It would be practically and legally?
I remember in a discussion of the year 2015 on the question of whether the Balkan Route. This was strongly disputed. But actually it was not as far as sealing, that is the main route of Migration to Europe. Similar signs already with regard to the Libya Route. Since then, namely the non-governmental organizations are being prevented from rescue by smugglers shipwrecked-made people, there is a remarkable decrease in the influx of refugees to Italy. Largely to a Standstill, he is likely to come as soon as it creates the Libyan government in connection with the Italian Navy to put the tractor organizations of the craft. The targeted date 1. September is but a pure air number.
The AfD seeks to ensure that asylum-seekers should be the first in North Africa opened asylum centre. There are, however, not a single one, although this has been challenged by other German politicians.
Left and the greens reject the whole concept that you don’t throw refugees outside of Europe in any proceedings, the German legal ideas. The SPD does not weigh fully the main even if it locks, in principle, against such a proposal. In the CDU there are many who consider the idea of the AfD makes sense. You have to wait, but with an open consent until the Chancellor addressed the issue with a proposal of its own. The CSU speaks out again and again, unmistakably, what is also thought in the CDU, is practicing now, but in the election campaign discipline. The AfD is currently the only party that speaks to the topic in a clear text. The requirement for an early repatriation of refugees is in those not yet existing stock a number of air. But it is not unlikely that – as with so many other once-unreal-Sounding also – also, this requirement in a few years, the policy of the European Union shapes.
Refugees on the Croatian-Slovenian border crossing Harmica Rigonce in September 2015
How do you see the asylum-the ideas of the AfD for the moment in General?
These statements of the AfD election campaign pure, because that out of refugees from Europe, the Central mobilizing theme of the AfD is keep. To whose power the party leadership know, of course. Also, it has the CDU as the only limited credible competition party worthy in the eye. The has changed its refugee policy to at least 150 degrees, but it was not open to previous errors and their subsequent correction. On the other hand, it is also the case that many once considered reprehensible in force demands a limitation of the influx of Refugees to Europe have now become a real, actively represented policy. As in the case of the sealing of the Balkan Route, much of it now is still sharply Rejected could be become in three, four years, of conventional policy, and self-evident reality.
The extent to which this could apply for the AfD-Plan, the current asylum law to completely abolish? That would mean a sharp Change of the basic law, and a complete Change of German policy…
This is nothing more than an additional and well-known scent to spice up the far right mats AfD-election campaign. It is an objective statement that is not in the foreseeable future, parliamentary not feasible. The CSU would propose more realistic, the following constitutional amendment: the victims of Political persecution asylum enjoy; all For a Federal law governs.
Werner Patzelt , a Professor of comparative politics at the TU Dresden and has repeatedly intensively with the policy of the AfD has.
The interview was conducted by Wolfgang Dick.