Saxon Justice Minister Constanze Geiert (CDU) laments a declining sense of security among the population. "This is gradually threatening to erode", she said during a specialist government statement in the state parliament and spoke out in favor of "honest communication". "We can only solve the problems if we address them openly and not every open discussion leads to a wave of protest on one side or the other."
People have a right to name and solve the problems. They are rightly tired of constantly having discussions about whether the problem should be named at all.
Geiert was indirectly referring to the discussion that has been taking place following the controversial comments made by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) about migrants in the cityscape. Merz said two weeks ago: "Of course, we still have this problem in the cityscape, and that's why the Federal Minister of the Interior is also in the process of facilitating and carrying out repatriations on a very large scale." He later specified this and said that problems were caused by migrants who did not have permanent residence status, did not work and did not abide by the rules. In a ZDF survey, 63 percent of respondents agreed with the CDU chairman's more precise statement. Critics accused Merz of racism. Since then, there have been protests in many cities.
