BERLIN, June 16 (Xinhua) -- As the German government is stuck into a major dispute in refugee policies, a poll has found that most of interviewees back tougher policies like Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, rather than Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Made by Infratest dimap and published by ARD late Friday night, the Deutschlandtrend poll suggested that 62 percent are in favor of rejecting asylum seekers without papers of entering Germany on German borders, the same with Seehofer's policies which Merkel apposes.
Some 86 percent of Germans want to see swifter repatriation of migrants whose asylum applications have been rejected, according to the poll made this week with over 1,000 interviewees.
Merkel-led Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Seehofer-led Bavarian sister party Christian Social Union (CSU) is now in a split in refugee policies, with Seehofer challenging Merkel and asking permission to turn back migrants without valid documents or are already registered in another EU country.
Merkel's opening-door policy in refugee crisis in 2015 allowed over 1 million refugees enter the country, resulting in CDU's major setback in election last year. CSU also suffered a lot in the election as the bordering Bavaria is the frontline of the entry of refugees.
Seehofer was supposedly release a "master plan" for migration policies on Thursday but was cancelled. The CSU practically set an ultimatum for Merkel on next Monday in the party executive committee to come to a decision.
Merkel insisted that Germany should not reject asylum seekers at the border, which would add to the burden of EU's border countries like Italy and Greece.
She called for seeking bilateral agreements with European countries and two weeks more for a wider solution by the EU on its summit scheduled on June 28-29.
