(European Conservative) An official study after the German elections showed that the country’s Muslim community (accounting for 6.6% of the German population) overwhelmingly supports left-wing parties, especially the far-left Die Linke and the social democratic SPD, primarily due to their immigration policies and pro-Palestine stance.
Left-wing parties would have bagged nearly 70% of the vote if only Muslims had participated in last week’s federal election, which projects a rather grim future for right-wing politics in Germany, unless current trends in immigration and demographics are reversed.
According to the study done by the research group Wahlen for the state-owned media ZDF, the most pro-Palestinian Die Linke was backed by 29% of Muslims with German citizenship, over three times more than their nationwide result (8.8%). The socialist SPD is close second with 28% among Muslims, despite suffering the greatest election defeat in their history with only 16.4% nationally.
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