Berlin: 160,000 protest against CDU-AfD collaboration
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Berlin police said on Sunday that at least 160,000 people attended a rally in the German capital to protest the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leaning on the support of the far-right AfD in parliament earlier this week.
On Friday, the Bundestag narrowly rejected a bill to significantly tighten asylum laws which was supported by the CDU and its conservative Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU), the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the business-focused Free Democrats (FDP) and the populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW).
But it was the cooperation between Germany's conservatives and the far right AfD that prompted Sunday's protest in Berlin.
'Shame on you CDU'
Shortly after the rally began outside the federal parliament, some protesters chanted slogans including "Shame on you CDU" before moving on towards the party's headquarters.
Others accused the CDU and its chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz of having made a "pact with the devil" by seeking the support of the AfD to pass the anti-immigration bill.
We are not going down easily.