Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Germany to protest against the CDU's migration policy and its voting behaviour in the Bundestag.
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00:00Tens of thousands took to the streets of several German cities, protesting against the influence
00:07of the far-right in migration politics.
00:11In the city of Hamburg alone, police said 65,000 people took part in the demonstration.
00:18Many protesters focused on Christian Democratic Union candidate for German Chancellor Friedrich
00:24Merz, who proposed two anti-immigration bills to the German parliament last week.
00:30Merz, the front-runner in Germany's election later this month, broke a long-standing pledge
00:35to not cooperate with the far-right alternative for Germany party on Wednesday, when he accepted
00:41its votes in order to pass his migration proposal.
00:46Since the end of World War II, Germany's established political parties refrained from working with
00:50extremist parties.
00:53It has therefore vented anger at the conservative bloc for breaking this taboo by collaborating
00:57with the AfD.