Status: 02/17/2023 00:00
Should Ukraine get fighter jets from Germany? In the current Germany trend for the ARD morning magazine a majority says: no. On the other hand, it supports the easier issuing of visas for earthquake victims.
After the German government’s decision to deliver battle tanks to Ukraine, a fighter jet delivery is being discussed. Chancellor Olaf Scholz is against it – and can know that a large part of the population is behind him.
Almost two-thirds of respondents (64 percent) reject the current GermanyTrend for the ARD morning magazine the provision of German combat aircraft. Not even one in four (23 percent) is in favor of it. 13 percent could not or did not want to comment on this.
The rejection runs through all party supporters and population groups. As with the battle tanks, the supporters of the AfD (86 percent) and the left (81 percent) are most clearly opposed to a delivery of the combat aircraft.
The majority of voters from the Greens and FDP are also against it, even if the supporters of such a step are strongest there with 38 percent for the Greens and 34 percent for the FDP.
69 percent support visas for earthquake victims
Tens of thousands of people died in the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, and millions were left homeless. In view of the misery, a large majority supports the federal government’s proposal to simplify the issuing of visas for those affected from Turkey. Anyone who has relatives in Germany who will bear the costs should be able to travel unbureaucratically from the earthquake area and stay here for up to three months.
Seven out of ten respondents (69 percent) think the project is right, 23 percent are against it. Supporters of almost all parties view the simplified issuing of visas positively – as many as 88 percent of supporters of Bündnis90/Greens agree. The AfD supporters judge the government’s plans differently. In their ranks, a simplified visa issuance is rejected by the majority.
Sunday question: Traffic light clearly misses its own majority
After a slight high at the beginning of the year, the traffic light parties from the SPD, Bündnis90/Die Grünen and FDP are missing the current one GermanyTrend now clearly its own majority again. Together they only come to 42 percent. If there were federal elections next Sunday, the Union could gain two percentage points and clearly maintain its leading position with 29 percent.
The SPD would have recorded slight losses compared to the Sunday question of February 2, but could hold second place. The downward trend for Bündnis90/Die Grünen would continue, because the party would only come to 17 percent – a minus of one percentage point. This is their worst result since March 2022.
15 percent of those surveyed would opt for the AfD, which could keep its result. The FDP would come to six percent with slight losses, the left would improve by one percentage point to five percent.
investigation facility
Universe: Eligible voters in Germany
Collection method: Random telephone and online survey
Survey period: February 14-15, 2023
Number of cases: 1216 Respondents (795 telephone interviews and 421 online interviews)
Weighting: according to sociodemographic characteristics and recollection of voting behavior; Sunday question with separate weighting
fluctuation range: 2 percentage points for a share value of 10 percent
3 percentage points for a share value of 50 percent
Implementing institute: infratest dimap
Results are rounded to whole percentages to avoid false expectations of precision. Because for all representative surveys, fluctuation ranges must be taken into account. In the case of a survey with 1000 respondents, these amount to around three percentage points for large parties and around one point for smaller parties. In addition, the rounding error is significant for small parties. For these reasons, no party below three percent is shown in the Sunday question.