North Rhine-Westphalia: No ministers with a migration background in the NRW government

Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - A week after the start of the first black-green coalition in North Rhine-Westphalia, criticism of the composition of the government team was raised.

North Rhine-Westphalia: No ministers with a migration background in the NRW government

Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - A week after the start of the first black-green coalition in North Rhine-Westphalia, criticism of the composition of the government team was raised. The fact that none of the twelve ministers in the cabinet of Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) had an immigrant background is regrettable, according to associations and scientists.

The Center for Turkish Studies and Integration Research (ZfTI) complained that a good 30 percent of the residents of North Rhine-Westphalia have a migration background, but this is not reflected in the first government made up of CDU and Greens in the history of the state. The member of the Bundestag Lamya Kaddor (Greens), an Islamic scholar with Syrian roots, told the German Press Agency: "I would have liked more diversity in the cabinet. That would have looked good on us in the immigration country of North Rhine-Westphalia and would have been another piece of normality."

The association of Turkish students at the University of Duisburg-Essen spoke of a "devastating signal" especially for young students and academics. From the point of view of the Turkish Federation in North Rhine-Westphalia - the regional association of the Turkish community in Germany - the new state government "did not use the historical momentum to present a real cabinet of diversity".