On October 30th we discussed the voting behaviour of the group of people with a migration background with guests in the conference room of the LMK.

Brigitte Juchems, head of the regional office Rhineland-Palatinate/Saarland of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, had invited to Ludwigshafen with medien+bildung.com to present and discuss the study "Political attitudes of people with a history of migration" which Dr. Andreas M. Wüst had prepared for the foundation. Dr. Wüst, lecturer at the University

Dr. Wüst, lecturer at the University Stuttgart, summarized essential results in his impulse: An increasing number of people with a migration background are entitled to vote and their share of the current approx. ten percent will grow in the coming years. The lenght of stay in Germany the intention to stay and familiarity with the political system all influence voter participation. Recent findings from the Hessian state elections show that the party-political preferences of mgiants hardly differ from those of the non-migrant population as a whole, although the preferences of the different groups of origin - the largest from the former Soviet Union, Poland and Turkey - are clearly different.

Katja Friedrich, managing director of medien+bildung.com then moderated the discussion with Dr. Andreas Wüst with Miguel Vincente, Commisioner of the State Government for Migration and Integration, Hannele Jalonen, Commissioner for Integration of the City of Ludwigshafen, Ziya Yüksel, State Chairman of the AG Migration and Diversity Rhineland-Palatinate, as well as Hayat Erten, Member of the City Counsil of the City of Ludwigshafen, Cem Cantekin, Chairman of the Advisory Board for Migration and Integration of the City of Ludwigshafen and Julia Kleiner, editor at alvivi.