Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has publicly criticized her successor, the center-right leader and front-runner in Germany's upcoming election, for proposing strict new migration rules that required the support of a far-right party to pass in parliament.
The center-left governing parties have expressed concerns about the trustworthiness of the conservative leader, who pushed for measures to cut irregular migration following a recent deadly knife attack by a rejected asylum-seeker. The proposal, which called for turning back more migrants at Germany's borders, narrowly passed with the help of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).
