More Germans with immigrant background back Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling conservative alliance, a poll out this month showed.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 27th September, 2018) More Germans with immigrant background back Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling conservative alliance, a poll out this month showed.
The 2018 Integration Barometer survey by the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration found that former migrants' affiliation had shifted away from leftist parties over the past two years.
This year's data shows that Merkel's Christian Democrats and Christian Socialists of Interior Minister Horst Seehofer now have the backing of 43.2 percent of people of migrant origin.
Merkel's coalition partners from the Social Democratic Party saw their support dwindle by 15 percent to 25 percent, while the Green and the Left parties got 10 percent each.
The migrant-skeptic Alternative for Germany gained 3 percentage points and now stands at 4.8 percent. The biggest shift was among Turkish-born Germans whose support for Socialists more than halved since 2016.
Germany saw a rift open in July between the two governing sister parties after Merkel rejected Seehofer's tough plan on how to tackle migration. A split was averted after the partners struck common ground on the contentious policy.
