6/ Links:
🔗 DW article: www.dw.com/en/who-can-a...
🔗 "Who Can Participate" project (2021-2022): www.dpart.org/en/projects/...

5/
- No major party is pushing for a more inclusive electoral system as politics shift right.
- Our Who Can Participate study (@dpart.bsky.social, 2021-22, w/ @yoncadege.bsky.social) showed that many with a migration history already engage politically and socially beyond elections.

4/ Key takeaways from the article:
- 14% of Germany’s adult population can’t vote because they lack citizenship.
- Even after citizenship reform, naturalization takes 4–6+ years, delaying political participation.

3/ In the 2025 federal election, 10 million long-term residents in Germany will be unable to vote.
Despite living, working, and contributing to society, restrictive citizenship and voting laws keep them politically sidelined.

2/ A country that relies on foreign labor across critical infrastructure should focus on better including people with a migration history. I spoke with Deutsche Welle about Germany’s democratic deficit—how millions of long-term residents with a migration history are excluded from voting. A thread 🧵

1/ 🗳️ Germany’s opposition conservatives (CDU/CSU) just passed a proposal to drastically restrict migration—with the help of the far-right AfD. This breaks a long-standing taboo on cooperation with the party and shifts the political discourse even further to the right.