The Catholic Church in Bavaria will not support the project, either. On the other hand, the CDU Member of Parliament Juergen Ruettgers defended his party's push for a public opinion poll of this kind. Ruettgers said in a radio interview that dual citizenship was detrimental to integration. The vast majority of the population, he said, was against dual citizenship. Roland Koch, the CDU's party chairman in Hessen said in a television interview that the danger existed that members of the Kurdish Worker's Party PKK could also obtain German citizenship.
Federal government plans informational campaign on citizenship Bonn.
The Federal Government wants to gain support for the introduction of dual citizenship with an informational campaign. The Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior, Cornelie Sonntag-Wolgast, SPD, defended the reform in a radio interview. She said the reform would make a contribution toward domestic peace. He continued that the CDU and the CSU were using shabby arguments to carry on a debate on the backs of people who were hardly in a position to defend themselves. More drug-related deaths Bonn.