PRO ASYL Presseerklärung | Press Release
February 8, 1999
PRO ASYL and the elections in Hesse
„To vanish“ doesn’t pay off
To start discussion on xenophobia and racism offensively
- PRO ASYL zur Hessenwahl: „Abtauchen“ zahlt sich nicht aus
Auseinandersetzung mit Fremdenfeindlichkeit und Rassismus offensiv aufnehmen - PRO ASYL and the elections in Hesse „To vanish“ doesn’t pay off
To start discussion on xenophobia and racism offensively
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(partially translated)
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„Germany expects a political shift to the right with fluent transitions between conservative and extreme right moral concepts. The CDU (Christian democrats) succeeded in its campaigning against the double citizenship, to mobilise xenophobe prejudices. It’s a serious political mistake, that SPD (Social democrats) and the Greens haven’t picked up this challenge offensively“, analyses Günter Burkhardt, general secretary of PRO ASYL.
The present in Bonn governing parties wouldn’t have mediated to the citizens the necessity of a basic reform of the citizenship. The reaction to the CDU campaign was too late and too hesitating. The discussion on the frame of xenopobe mind has Red-Green left to foreigner councils, trade unions and Human Rights organisations like PRO ASYL. The election results must be an apprenticeship for the Red-Green government: „to vanish doesn’t pay off“, said Günter Burkhardt.
PRO ASYL fears, that the Union succumbs to the temptation, to continue the xenophiobe campaign at least until the European election on June 13 , if not until the regional elections in autumn. PRO ASYL fears therefore a further Increase of xenophobia and racism in Germany. It would be necessary now, to mobilise all democratic powers. The discussion on xenophobe and racist trends should be started offensively.
