A clear majority of East Germans can identify with democracy as an idea, but less than half are satisfied with their everyday experience of democracy. This was the result of a representative survey of 3,546 people from the eastern German states conducted by the Else-Frenkel-Brunswik Institute of the University of Leipzig, the results of which were presented today (June 28) at the Federal Press Conference in Berlin by the study’s directors Oliver Decker and Elmar Brähler.
The vast majority of respondents said they felt they had no political influence. The identification as East Germans is high, the balance of the turnaround is mixed: -One quarter feels like a loser of the turnaround, not even half would like to call themselves a winner. ...
