Should elected representatives make the decisions? The German citizens are obviously not completely convinced. At least when it comes to coping with pandemics and climate change.
Less than half of the citizens in Germany consider democracy as a form of government to be well suited to successfully fighting pandemics.
In a survey, 44 percent answered that democracy was “very good” or “rather good” for this, announced the German National Foundation on Thursday in Weimar. Forty percent, in turn, consider the form of government to be «rather bad» or «very bad» suited to mastering the challenges of a pandemic, 15 percent cannot make up their minds.
The respondents rate democracy as a form of government in coping with climate change more positively: 52 percent of the respondents consider the form of government to be good and 33 percent to be poorly suited to tackling the challenges.
The poll was carried out by the polling institute Civey on behalf of the foundation. Its chairman Thomas Mirow, SPD politician and former state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance, said of the results that democracies had to tackle the problems “courageously and competently”. “Then it will be possible to convince larger majorities of the superiority of free societies.”
Source From: Stern
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