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Berlin's Senator for the Interior, Andreas Geisel, considers the quota proposed by Senator for Integration Elke Breitenbach (Left) for people with a migration background in the public service to be unconstitutional.

"Our Basic Law says that no one may be favored or disadvantaged because of their origin, gender, ethnicity, sexuality," said the SPD politician to the "Tagesspiegel" (Wednesday).

In the case of women and people with disabilities, this could be supplemented by laws, said Geisel: “But those are tough criteria!

The migration background is a voluntary information - we cannot go beyond a benchmark.

Well meant is not well done, ”said Geisel.

Integration Senator Breitenbach has written the quota in a bill.

Accordingly, there should be as many people with foreign roots in the administration as in the population.

Their share in administration is currently estimated at 12 percent - in the Berlin population it is 35 percent.

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According to the draft, people with a migrant background should be given preference if they are equally well qualified and the quota has not yet been reached.

The German Association of Officials rejected the proposal, and it is also controversial within the red-red-green coalition.

Geisel referred in the "Tagesspiegel" to the advice of constitutional lawyers in his administration: According to this, a quota in its current form would fail before the labor courts.

Greens and leftists also knew about the problems, but continued their “all-or-nothing” course: “That's thinking until election day, nothing more.”

However, there was "complete agreement" about the goal of bringing more people with a migration background into the public service, said Geisel.

In the case of the police, for example, his administration succeeded in increasing the proportion of civil servants with a migration background - through targeted recruiting on the one hand and target agreements with senior executives on the other.

Geisel considers the move by the left to delete the term “integration” from the amendment to be “wrong”.

"In a society of diversity," said Geisel, "we need common values ​​that we can agree on." In recent years, many people have come to Germany who "have not been socialized with our values ​​in their countries of origin".

"Integration is the prerequisite for peaceful coexistence," said Geisel.