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Tuesday 19 Jan 2016 - 12:01 Makkah mean time-9-4-1437
Berlin, (IINA) - A prominent ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has threatened to sue her government over its open door refugee policy, as political pressure grows stronger on the chancellor in order to reduce the number of new arrivals, Reuters reported.
Bavarian state Premier Horst Seehofer said he would send the federal government a written request within the next two weeks to restore "orderly conditions" at the nation's borders, through which one million migrants and refugees passed last year alone.
"If it doesn't follow, the state government will have no other choice but to file a suit at the Federal Constitutional Court", Seehofer told Der Spiegel magazine on Saturday.
Seehofer has issued a series of warnings to Merkel in recent months to pressure her into taking immediate action and limit the influx of migrants.
His comments reflect growing doubt among Germans about Merkel's stance in the face of Europe's biggest migrant crisis since World War II, especially since sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year's Eve were blamed on migrants.
According to a poll on Friday, Merkel's popularity has dropped since the assaults.
Bavaria, a conservative state that borders Austria to the south, is the home of Seehofer's Christian Social Union (CSU), sister party to Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and is the main entry point for migrants and refugees.
The state's finance minister, Markus Soeder, told Der Spiegel that Merkel's refugee policy was not democratically legitimized and said parliament should vote on the matter.
Merkel has vowed to "measurably reduce" arrivals this year but has refused to introduce a cap, saying it would be impossible to enforce without closing German borders.
Instead, she has tried to convince European partners to take on quotas of refugees, pushed for reception centers to be built on Europe's external borders, and led an EU campaign to persuade Turkey to keep refugees from entering the bloc.
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