Bundestag: Every tenth MP has a migration background

The proportion of people with a migration background increases in the population, practically not in the Bundestag. According to current research in the media service, around 11.6 percent of the newly elected MPs have a migration background. In the Bundestag elected in 2021 it was 11.3 percent. According to the definition of the Federal Statistical Office, all people who did not have German citizenship at birth have a migration background, as well as those with at least one parent to whom this applies.

Every fifth member of the Green Group has roots abroad

The Greens faction currently has the highest proportion of MPs with a migration background with 20 percent, followed by the left (18.8 percent) and the SPD (17.5 percent).

With CDU and CSU, the proportion is significantly lower at 6.3 percent, but is somewhat above the value of the group of 2021. At that time, only 4.1 percent of the Union MPs had a migration background. The slightest proportion of people with a migration background can be found in the AfD parliamentary group this time. According to the research, he is now 5.9 percent – after 7.2 percent in the old Bundestag. Women can also hardly be seen on the group pictures of the new faction.

The Green MP Misbah Khan said that it was disappointed that the proportion of people with a migration background in the Bundestag was still far below their share in the population. According to the microcensus, around 29.7 percent of the population had a migration background in 2023; Almost half were German citizens.

Green politician advises: appeal to immigrants differently

“I don’t believe in a migrant rate, but more permeability and another speech would be good,” says the member of the Bundestag from Rhineland-Palatinate. In the Green Group of the Bundestag of 2021, the proportion was above the average value of 13.6 percent at the time. “With the Greens, I never had the feeling that it is a problem to have a migration background,” says Khan, the Muslim of Pakistani origin. With Muslims in the CDU, on the other hand, she had the impression that “this is a completely different fight”.

The chairwoman of the Federal Immigration and Integration Council (BZI), Didem Lacin Karabulut, reported people with a migration background who were involved in conservative parties in their hometown of Augsburg and still ended up on the back of the list places even after years. The front places are often occupied by people who are better placed economically and are very well networked. At the same time, the leadership bodies are “widely male and white”. Breaking through these structures requires a lot of patience and “thick skin”.

Uncertainty by debate about withdrawal of citizenship

Khan says that great uncertainty among people with immigration history has recently caused the proposal from the Union, immigrants with duplicate citizenship who are delinquent to take away the German passport. The double pass is not a voluntary decision for some naturalized people, since some states do not relieve their citizens from citizenship.

20 direct mandates won

As the media service Integration announced, 53 of the 73 members of the new Bundestag, who have a migration background, have moved into parliament via the lists of their parties. 20 MPs won a mandate as direct candidates.

Most come from other EU countries or Turkey

According to the information, more than a third of the 73 MPs with foreign roots are related to the European Union countries. People with Polish roots form the largest group among them with seven MPs.

18 MPs have a Turkish migration background. Eight MPs have a reference to the states of the former Soviet Union. Among them are also people from late repatriates. Late relievers are descendants of Germans from the area of ​​the former Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries.

Share in the SPD parliamentary group stagnates

The proportion of people with a migration background in the parties to the left of the middle is tend to tend to tend to be higher than in the conservative and right spectrum. According to the media service, he is currently at the level of 2021 in the SPD parliamentary group. At that time it was 17 percent, now it is 17.5 percent. According to the information, it has increased significantly among the Greens. The fact that the Left Group is now around ten percentage points below the value of 2021 also has to do with the dissolution of the parliamentary group in December 2023. The proportion of people with a migration background was higher in the ten -member group around Sahra Wagenknecht, who went on their own way than in the rest of the parliamentary group. The Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) failed just at the five percent hurdle during the election last Sunday.