Despite his collaboration with far-right AfD party, Merz fails to gain majority in parliament for his anti-immigration legislation just weeks before parliamentary election - Anadolu Ajansı

If the law had passed, it would have been the first in the country's modern history to do so thanks to the support of the far-right Germany's parliament rejected on Friday an opposition draft law on tightening immigration policy,

The Bundestag rejected the CDU/CSU bill on limiting immigration. The media noted that this was a painful defeat for Friedrich Merz, who aimed to gain the support of the conservative electorate before the elections with this bill.