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According to an international survey, satisfaction with the state's crisis management in the corona pandemic has fallen significantly in Germany. While in the spring of 2020 71 percent of the German respondents were of the opinion that their country was reacting well to the pandemic, only 48 percent are now of this opinion. This was announced by the democracy organization of the ex-NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Alliance of Democracies, in Copenhagen on Wednesday. The decline corresponds to a general trend in Europe, but is significantly greater than the global average.
According to this, almost half of all Germans (48 percent) are of the opinion that the federal government has restricted the freedoms of citizens too far in the pandemic.
On the other hand, 31 percent of those surveyed in Germany thought the restrictions were appropriate.
These figures are in line with the European average.
According to the survey, the most dissatisfied citizens in Europe are Poland, France and Italy.
As a result, there is also a particularly high level of dissatisfaction in Latin America, particularly in Brazil and Peru.
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And overall, the satisfaction of many citizens with the respective corona management of their governments has fallen sharply.
As the report shows, an average of 58 percent of international respondents approve of how their government is reacting to the pandemic - a year earlier it was 70 percent.
Satisfaction is particularly high in Asian countries such as Vietnam and China.
"We now have to get out of the Covid-19 pandemic by providing people with more democracy and freedom," said Fogh Rasmussen at the presentation of the study.
For the annual study on the perception of democracy, the “Democracy Perception Index”, the market research institute Latana, on behalf of the Alliance of Democracies, surveyed a total of more than 50,000 people in 53 countries in which more than three quarters of the world's population live. In Germany, 1009 people took part.