Unanimously how rarely the leaders of the country stand behind the policy. 90 percent praise the work of the Grand coalition in the Corona-crisis. The Federal government had been evaluated prior to the outbreak of the pandemic for many years as “too weak”, thickness is available in German boardrooms is now hardly any doubt as to their Action.

Heike Göbel

Responsible editor for economic policy, responsible for “The regulation of the economy”.

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this is The current Elite Panel shows have asked for the opinion of researchers from the allensbach now more than 500 leaders from business, government, and politics, among other things, for the F. A., for example. The result surprised even the most experienced Allensbach Director Renate Köcher. “I can remember in decades of such consent to the government,” she says. Even in the 2008 financial crisis, the government did not get such high values.

Largely agree, the elites are by the fact that, for the protection of health in March made strong restrictions of everyday life and of economic life were correct. From this assessment, the most important political actors of the Corona-crisis benefit equally. This could be with a view to the election to the Bundestag of importance.

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The highest Approval receives the Chancellor, who does not start by 2020. From the spectrum of possible Chancellor candidate of the Union CSU leader Markus Söder and the Minister of health, Jens Spahn (CDU) protrude, whose work is in the Corona-crisis convinced more than 80 percent of the respondents.

Off of North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister, Armin Laschet, the applying first, in November, the CDU presidency lands, however. With his performance, only 30 percent are satisfied. Quiver finds to be unfair, the facts are not covered. Bayern beat in the Corona-crisis better than the North Rhine-Westphalia.

On the SPD side is reaping the Vice-Chancellor and Finance Minister, Olaf Scholz, a high level of recognition. Whether the response of the elites helps his ambitions for the candidacy is questionable. The two SPD Chairman want to back the party, as we know, to the left in the election campaign sharper delineate by the Union.

In the eyes of the majority of the respondents, the policy focuses too narrowly on the fight against the pandemic. The major impact of the virologists on the decisions of more than two-thirds deem appropriate. And even though the infection numbers at the time of the survey were dropped at the beginning of July already strong calls from the company, only a minority, the rest of the restrictions in everyday life, such as the mask of duty, quickly pick up.