German CDU leader Friedrich Merz vows to toughen migration policy

Merz, whose centre-right bloc currently tops the polls, is toughening his stance on migration ahead of federal elections next month.

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00:00The leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union, Friedrich Merz, vowed to crack down

00:06on illegal immigration if he is elected as chancellor next month.

00:12The opposition party leader said he would bar people from entering the country without

00:16proper papers and that he would increase deportations.

00:21His statement comes just a day after two people were killed and three injured in an attack

00:26in Bavaria.

00:57The attack comes at a politically sensitive moment, with Germany's national election to

01:02be held on February 23rd.

01:06Support for Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats, the Greens and the Liberal Free

01:10Democrats has declined.

01:12Meanwhile, opinion polls show that support has increased for opposition parties Christian

01:17Democratic Union and Far-Right Alternative for Germany.