Energy transition hui, cannabis ugh: Germany's population is divided on the coalition's plans
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The approval of the minimum wage increases is high, and the lowering of the voting age is rather poor: the coalition partners' plans are received differently by the population.
This is shown by a representative survey by ARD, the “Germany trend”.
Among the projects set out in the coalition agreement between the SPD, the Greens and the FDP, 86 percent supported the increase in the minimum wage.
The bundling of state benefits for children in a basic child benefit also met with a high level of approval with 80 percent.
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According to the information, 83 percent of those surveyed think the greater expansion of renewable energies is good, and 75 percent are in favor of the introduction of a climate check in federal legislation. The majority also support the possibility of bringing the coal phase out earlier, with an approval rating of 56 percent. The survey on the abolition of the so-called advertising ban on abortions was even tighter: 47 percent were in favor, 40 percent against. The advertising ban prohibits doctors who carry out abortions, among other things as far as possible, from informing them about them on their website.
The Germans also disagree on the legalization of cannabis for recreational use.
With 43 percent to 47 percent, a narrow majority spoke out against it.
The respondents are also rather negative about the simplified naturalization of migrants, as well as the purchase of combat drones for the Bundeswehr.
The coalition's attempt to lower the voting age in federal elections to 16 is particularly poor: almost two thirds of those surveyed are against it, and 30 percent are in favor.
Answers to the questions of the future?
The participants were split pretty much down the middle when asked whether the coalition agreement provided the right answers to the challenges of the future: 45 percent agreed, 45 percent disagreed.
Most of the respondents found the smallest coalition partner, the FDP, to be particularly successful.
When asked whose signature the coalition agreement is most likely to bear, 37 percent of those surveyed named the FDP.
32 percent attributed this to the SPD and 13 percent to the Greens.
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