(ANSA-AFP) - BERLIN, JAN 29 - Germany's parliament narrowly
passed a resolution Wednesday urging tough restrictions on
immigration that was especially controversial because it was
backed by the far-right AfD. The motion was brought, ahead of
February 23 elections, by the conservative opposition CDU-CSU
and backed by, among others, the Alternative for Germany (AfD)
party. That broke a long-standing taboo on cooperation with the
anti-immigration party. MPs passed it with 348 votes in favour
and 345 against, with 10 abstentions. The vote came days after a
knife attack that killed two people, including a two-year-old
child, with an Afghan man arrested at the scene. The resolution
lacks the force of law but calls on the government to launch
permanent border controls and for the "rejection of all attempts
to enter the country illegally without exception". (ANSA-AFP).
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