Muslim voters were a major contributing factor to the far-left Die Linke party’s victory in the Berlin elections last week, an analysis of religious affiliation exit polling has revealed.
\n\nAccording to data collected by the Wahlen research group and obtained by the Catholic News Agency (KNA), Die Linke (The Left) won 51 per cent of Muslim voters in last Sunday’s Berlin elections, meaning that if only Muslims voted, the radical leftist party would have won an absolute governing majority in the Berlin state parliament.
\n\nWhile there is no official data, it has been estimated that Muslims make up around 10 per cent of the overall population of Berlin, making them a significant voting bloc.
\n\nDie Linke also performed well among non-religious voters, with 28 per cent of the atheist/agnostic vote backing the far-left socialist party.
\n\nConversely, the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won both Catholic and Protestant voters in the German capital, at 30 per cent among Catholics and 27 per cent among Protestants. This compares with 17 and 16 per cent of the same groups backing Die Linke, meaning that if only Christians had voted, the CDU would have comfortably won.
\n\nThe far-left party, a direct descendant of the…
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