默克爾呼籲德國主流政黨聯合對抗右翼勢力

Angela Merkel has appealed to mainstream parties to unite against the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany, warning parliament that the AfD’s rise is a challenge for us all in this building.

安格拉•默克爾(Angela Merkel)呼籲主流政黨聯合起來，對抗反對移民的德國新選項黨(AfD)。她對議會警告稱，AfD勢力上升對於這座大廈裏的所有人是一種威脅。

In comments that marked one of her strongest interventions to date on the rightwing party, three days after it elbowed her own Christian Democrats into third place in a key regional election , the chancellor called on other parties to take the fight to the AfD, avoid populist policies and rebuild electors’ trust.

三天前，AfD在一次關鍵的地區選舉中把默克爾領導的基民盟(CDU)擠到第三名的位置。這位德國總理呼籲其他政黨向AfD出擊，避免民粹主義政策並重建選民的信任。這是默克爾對這個右翼政黨迄今發出的干預意味最濃厚的言論之一。

She also broke from her usual practice and referred to the AfD by name.

她也打破了自己的慣例，直接點名AfD。

Sunday’s vote in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, home to Ms Merkel’s constituency, was just the latest victory for the AfD, which has become postwar Germany’s most successful rightwing party.

默克爾選區所在的梅克倫堡-前波莫瑞州（Mecklenburg-Vorpommern，簡稱梅前州）週日的投票結果只是AfD的最新勝利。該黨已成爲戰後德國最成功的右翼政黨。

Discontent over the chancellor’s refugee policy appeared to drive many mainstream voters into the AfD’s arms.

對於這位總理的難民政策感到不滿，似乎把許多主流選民推向AfD的懷抱。

Instead of justifying last year’s decision to throw open Germany’s borders to more than 1m migrants — as Ms Merkel has done repeatedly in the past 12 months — the chancellor changed tack yesterday by emphasising the steps taken since then to restrict refugee inflows, notably the reinforcement of the EU’s Mediterranean borders.

這位總理沒有爲去年對逾100萬移民開放德國邊境的決定辯解——過去12個月她曾反覆這麼做——昨日她改變了策略，強調了自那以來採取的限制難民流入的措施，尤其是加固歐盟(EU)的地中海邊境。

Ms Merkel also warned against targeting AfD supporters, saying that scolding the voters brings nothing.

默克爾還警告不要針對AfD的支持者，她表示，責罵選民毫無作用。

Instead, mainstream politicians had to focus on the facts, she advised.

相反，她建議稱，主流政治人士必須用事實來說話。

The political temperature is rising in Germany ahead of the autumn 2017 Bundestag elections, when the AfD hopes to seize on growing disenchantment with Ms Merkel to become Germany’s first rightwing party since 1945 to enter parliament.

在2017年秋季的聯邦議會選舉之前，德國的政治溫度開始升高。AfD希望抓住選民對默克爾日益失望的機會，成爲德國自1945年以來首個進入議會的右翼政黨。

In the meantime, the parties will contest local authority elections on Sunday in the western region of Lower Saxony and regional polls in Berlin on September 18.

另一方面，各政黨將於週日在西部的下薩克森州(Lower Saxony)競逐地方政府選舉，9月18日競逐柏林的地方投票。

Until now, Ms Merkel has largely avoided talking directly about the AfD, for fear of legitimising it through debate.

此前默克爾基本上避免了直接談及AfD，擔心投入辯論反而使該黨合法化。

But she has long been under pressure from more aggressive CDU colleagues to take off the gloves amid concern that she was giving the AfD too much political space.

但是，她一直面臨基民盟內部更激進同僚的壓力，要求她採取強硬姿態，他們擔心默克爾讓AfD獲得太大政治空間。

Yesterday, she also urged political leaders to stop trying to secure small advantages over each other, in a clear message to her coalition partners — the Bavaria-based CSU and the centre-left Social Democrats.

昨日，她還敦促各位政治領導人別再努力爭取針對彼此的細微優勢，此言向她的聯盟夥伴——巴伐利亞的基社盟(CSU)和中左的社民黨(SPD)——發出了明確信息。