(Waa waa waa! Hes just trying to smooze Germany w window dressing! All theyre interested in is staying in office!- CDH) Merkel's Bavarian allies vow to win back right-wing voters
By Andrea Shalal
ReutersFebruary 14, 2018
By Andrea Shalal
PASSAU, Germany (Reuters) - Bavarian conservatives launched a drive on Wednesday to win back right-wing voters in a regional election in October, vowing to increase deportations of failed asylum seekers, tighten border security and beef up scrutiny of foreign funding for mosques.
Markus Soeder, slated to take over as leader of the Christian Social Union and become premier of the prosperous southern German state, won thunderous applause with an impassioned speech to a rally in Passau, near the Austrian border crossed by many Muslim migrants in 2015 and 2016. Soeder, now regional finance and homeland minister, railed against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which eroded the CSU's traditional dominance in Bavaria in the Sept. 24 national election. He pledged to answer concerns of voters unnerved by the influx of over a million mostly Muslim migrants.
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