DESPERATE PLOY: Angela Merkel Calls for BURKA BAN

In a desperate bid to save her sinking candidacy for re-election, Chancellor Merkel has done a complete 180 and called for a ban on the burka.

It is a stunning reversal. Merkel imported millions of burkas. Her call for a ban is a transparent and cynical election ploy. She ruined Germany (and Europe) when she threw the gates of Europe open to a full throttled Muslim invasion. She is certain to lose re-election and rightly so. I do not believe the German people will be fooled by this bone she has thrown at them.

MERKEL’S U-TURN Angela Merkel calls for Germany BURKA BAN saying ‘the full veil is not appropriate here’ in astonishing U-turn

The German Chancellor made the announcement at a party conference having recently declared she will stand for re-election
By Corey Charlton, The Sun, 6th December 2016:

ANGELA Merkel today completed an astonishing U-turn as she formally endorsed a full burka ban following a backlash over her open-door migration policies.

The German chancellor made the comments at a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) conference having recently declared she will seek re-election.

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She told the annual congress that it was legitimate to expect integration from newcomers, underlining her party’s bid to ban the full face veil.

“The full veil must be banned wherever it is legally possible,” she said to a large round of applause.

Merkel also stressed her determination to ensure that there’s no repeat of last year’s huge migrant influx as she seeks a new two-year term in charge of her conservative party.

It marks a U-turn for CDU party leaders, who have previously expressed scepticism of a full ban despite growing calls for it among rank and file members.

Merkel has also stopped short of calling for a ban, saying only that she must find the right legal and political balance.

Party members have recently expressed hope it would encompass both the burka and the niqab, which shows slightly more of a woman’s face.

Germany saw about 890,000 asylum-seekers arrive last year, many after Merkel decided in September 2015 to let in migrants who were stuck in Hungary.

Numbers have since declined sharply, but Merkel’s approach to the migrant crisis has provoked discord within her Christian Democratic Union, which has seen a string of poor state election results this year.

But despite the unpopularity of her decision, she was today re-elected as party leader after running unopposed and receiving 89.5 percent of votes.

“A situation like the one in the late summer of 2015 cannot, should not and must not be repeated,” Merkel told party delegates. “That was and is our, and my, declared political aim,” she said.

While Merkel has continued to insist that Germany will take in people in genuine need of protection, her government has moved to toughen asylum rules and declare several countries “safe” meaning people from there can’t expect to get refuge in Germany.