Julia Klöckner: The Germans accuse their partiality

There is a lot of criticism of Julia Klöckner. For Christopher Street Day, the Bundestag president prohibited the rainbow flag on the Reichstag building. A MP from the left referred her to the plenary hall because he was wearing a basket cap. And finally, the CDU politician is said to have equated the right internet portal “Nius” and the daily “Taz” at an event of the controversial entrepreneur Frank Gotthardt. Gotthardt is the financier of “nius”.

A majority of Germans are dissatisfied with Klöckner. 45 percent have the impression that the politician does not lead her office non-partisan, as a Forsa survey on behalf of the star resulted. 31 percent see it differently. 24 percent have not formed an opinion. The majority of the CDU/CSU supporters find that Klöckner is responsible for her office as President of the Bundestag (53 percent). After all, a quarter of their own supporters cannot find this. Most of the voters of all other parties see Klöckner critically: negatively, the political management of the politician assess the supporters of the SPD (46 percent), the AfD (57 percent) and especially the Greens (61 percent) and the left (64 percent).

Klöckner was elected President of the Bundestag in March. The politician was previously the treasurer of the CDUdeputy party leader and Federal Minister of Agriculture. The former wine queen recently made headlines with her Relationship with TV presenter Jörg Pilawa.

The data was collected by the market and opinion research institute Forsa for the Stern and RTL Germany on August 21 and 22. Database: 1001 respondents. Statistical fault tolerance: +/- 3 percentage points. This means that the survey is representative.