Study on party preferences
On the way in Neukölln – immigrants tend to turn left
The proportion of voters with a migration background increases, in 2021 it was around 13 percent. Among them are many voters. They often don’t feel seen by the parties.
A large part of the German voters with a migration background rather trusts parties from the spectrum of middle links. Only with immigrants from the former Soviet Union and their descendants do the CDU and CSU have a relatively good state, as a current study by the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DEZIM) shows in Berlin.
Weak economy and price increase are great concern
What the researchers also found out: The concerns of the voters with and without an immigration history are similar. The weakening German economy and inflation is currently the number one problem area for all Germans.
The data also show that people with a migration background particularly often fear that they become victims of a crime. According to the authors, the material living conditions also play a role in this: “Precarious economic environments and a lack of living space are often associated with a higher crime rate,” says the study.
For their investigation, the researchers had not asked who the participants would choose the survey if the Bundestag election were already the next Sunday, but which party they consider selectable. According to this, the SPD has the greatest voter potential with 74 percent overall, followed by the CDU and CSU, Greens and FDP.
However, if you look at the different groups, there are differences. For example, there are less approval for the Greens in voters who have roots in non-EU countries than among people without a migration background.
The left and the alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) have more voter potential in all groups viewed by the scientists with foreign origin than among voters without an immigration history. With one exception: people with roots in Russia or other areas of the ex-Soviet Union have a little less confidence in the party DIE LINKE.
As a person with a migration background in the sense of the study, people who have a parent who was born without German citizenship are considered.
Middle East conflict employs immigrant voters more
The Middle East conflict is also one of the topics that people with migration history have recently worried. This conflict is often viewed from a different perspective by people from Turkey and the Arab world from a different perspective than by Germans without foreign ancestors. He is very concerned about 42.7 percent of people surveyed with roots abroad. It is 34.8 percent for people without a migration background.
This is also determined by the SPD member of the Bundestag, Hakan Demir from Berlin-Neukölln, when he is traveling in his constituency. It is an election campaign in which many anti-AfD stickers stick on the apartment doors.
“High rents, the garbage that lies on the street, high food prices: these are the topics that I am addressed most,” says Demir. People with a migration background in particular had recently asked him about the position of his party about the war in the Gaza strip. He then says that the SPD is for a two-state solution, i.e. for a Palestinian state that lives in a peaceful neighborhood with Israel.
Mohammed al-Zoubi, whom the 40-year-old MP affects in his door-to-door election campaign, is not enough. He says: “I see critically that we deliver weapons to Israel.” Then the 34-year-old adds: “I was in front of Olaf Scholz for the SPD, but he wrapped.” When choosing in February, he wanted to choose the left, he says. The geriatric nurse from Syria offers a coffee, which is still tired of his night shift, the SPD candidate.
Demir wants to knock on 20,000 doors in Neukölln
Demir hardly reaps unfriendly or even hostile comments in the front door election campaign, he says. His goal is 20,000 apartments, according to his own statement, he has already knocked on 5,000 doors. Some residents of his district briefly say: “No interest.”
“The SPD does a lot for foreigners,” says a young man who speaks German with a strong accent. “My wife explains to me how politics works here in Germany,” he says, willingly accepting the flyer of the SPD candidate.
It was always important for him, “which party perceives me and accepts me,” says Yunus Ulusoy from the Center for Turkey Studies and Integration Research (ZFTI) in Essen. However, other questions are now also important for the grandchildren of the immigrants when it comes to which party they vote.
dpa
Source: Stern
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