Chancellor Scholz is dividing the nation: A survey reveals deep divisions in the assessment of his Ukraine policy.
According to a survey, opinion in Germany is divided about Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s (SPD) Ukraine policy. 45 percent of those surveyed are satisfied with it – the majority of supporters of the SPD, Greens, FDP and Left share this assessment. For 46 percent, Scholz is doing a bad job in the Ukraine conflict. This emerges from the ZDF political barometer, for which the elections research group surveyed 1,260 people between March 5th and 7th. The survey is representative of the population eligible to vote.
Citizens are generally less satisfied with the Chancellor’s work: only a third of those surveyed rated it as good (33 percent), while 62 percent rated it as rather bad.
Once again, a majority of those surveyed expressed a negative response to the question of whether Germany should deliver Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine. 59 percent are against it, 34 percent are in favor. Rejection was similarly high in two other recently published surveys, the ARD Deutschlandtrend and a survey by the opinion research institute YouGov on behalf of the German Press Agency.
Questions verbatim ZDF political barometer
Source: Stern
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