CDU wants to limit dual citizenship

hamburg - The German CDU, the party of Angela Merkel, wants to bring the issue of dual citizenship in the German election campaign. Restrictions on the provision of a second passport form part of them, according to a report by Spiegel Online. Merkel also about self sharpening no longer rejects.

The current citizenship law should be modified message Der Spiegel, which has seen one of the CDU document this. The reason for the proposal are the German-Turkish tensions over Turkish politicians who can not speak their compatriots in Germany a Turkish referendum.

At the party congress in December Merkel distanced herself even a motion to abolish the possibility for German-born descendants of foreign parents to have two passports.

On September 24 there will be elections in Germany. For the CDU, Angela Merkel's candidate for a new term as chancellor.