“While Merkel and AfD have never been friends, one particular comment by the party’s co-founder, Alexander Gauland, prompted her to leave the Bundestag on Thursday…’Countries want to decide for themselves who they take in. There is no national duty with regard to multiculturalism.'”
That was it? That was what drove her from the chamber? What a petty, thin-skinned little tyrant. But no number of flounces from the Bundestag will make multiculturalism a national duty.
“Merkel walks out of parliament after AfD leader lambasts her support for migrant quota system,” RT, February 22, 2018:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel walked out of a parliamentary session after a leader from the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party criticized her support of a proposed EU refugee distribution system.
While Merkel and AfD have never been friends, one particular comment by the party’s co-founder, Alexander Gauland, prompted her to leave the Bundestag on Thursday. That remark slammed the chancellor’s support for an EU quota system for accepting refugees.
“Countries want to decide for themselves who they take in. There is no national duty with regard to multiculturalism,” Gauland said….