BERLIN - A total of 126 politicians of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) called on their party leader to change her course on refugee policies, German newspaper Bild reported Wednesday.

The rebellion in the CDU against Merkel's refugee policies is widening, according to the report. Last week, the three-page urgent letter to Merkel contained only 34 signatories. The now 126 signatories, who all are CDU function or mandate holders, include 38 members of German state parliament.

Their main demand is the closure of German borders to refugees who have come from safe third countries to Germany, said the report.

"This should be practiced at least as long as the Schengen external borders are actually open and the other Schengen states do not comply to their obligations under European law," as it said in the urgent letter.

However, the notion of rejecting refugees at the border was thrown out by Merkel at a CDU meeting with its Bavarian CSU sister party on Tuesday in the Bundestag.

As German media reported last week, the original three-page letter signed by 34 officials of Merkel's conservative CDU party said the chancellor's refugee policies disregarded party principles and broke the law.(Xinhua)