Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) has criticized his own Minister of Justice in the dispute over the new federal admission program for particularly vulnerable Afghans. CDU politician Marion Gentges recently wrote in a letter to Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) that, given the tense refugee situation, it was not "responsible" to take in people from Afghanistan via a special program.
That surprised him, said Kretschmann on Tuesday in Stuttgart. "That is not the opinion of the coalition." There was consensus with the CDU, too, that the local staff from Afghanistan should be taken on, said Deputy Prime Minister Thomas Strobl, said Kretschmann. And: "The numbers that are at stake are further below what we now have access to," he said. "That doesn't really bother me now, the orders of magnitude that are at stake here."
The federal program provides for the admission of 1,000 people and, according to the state ministry, is aimed at the special group of those who have campaigned for democracy, human rights and women's rights.
