CSU leader Horst Seehofer in an interview with public broadcaster ARD on Sunday. Conservative CSU party leader Horst Seehofer took criticism from the SPD and Green Party after backing away on Sunday from his demand for an upper limit of refugees Germany can take in and no longer explicitly calling it a condition for a coalition. As a precondition for continuing to work with Merkel's party, Seehofer long demanded an annual upper limit of 200,000 asylum seekers - a demand she has consistently rejected. "Horst Seehofer plays tactically with themes and thus with humans. Horst Seehofer spielt taktisch mit Themen und dadurch mit Menschen.

Source: The Local August 21, 2017 08:48 UTC