29 percent of voters are right -wing extremists - the Bertelsmann study examines the attitude of voters under established parties

Berlin. Chauvinism, xenophobia and a certain tendency towards authoritarianism are widespread among AfD voters than among supporters of the other parties in the Bundestag. This is the result of the Bertelsmann Foundation in the evaluation of a study based on a representative online survey of June 2020.

In order to measure the attitude of the right-wing extremists, the 10,055 survey participants were asked, statements such as "We should have a guide who has ruled Germany for the good of everyone" or "The Federal Republic is dangerously foreign to the many foreigners.

According to the information, 29 percent of those surveyed who intended to vote for the AfD were found "obvious right-wing extremist" settings. Six percent were commented on among the supporters of the CDU and the CSU. According to the Bertelsmann Foundation, the proportion of voters in the left and the FDP each was five percent. The value was for the SPD voters (four percent) and the voters of the Greens (two percent) lower.

Populist settings are widespread

According to the Bertelsmann Foundation, almost three quarters (73 percent) of the AfD voters were clearly or at least partially populist attitudes. The author of the study, Robert Vehrkamp, summarizes: "May your election success in the 2017 federal elections have primarily a success of the right -wing populist mobilization of voters in the shadow of the refugee crisis."

Before the Bundestag elections in 2021, the AfD is a party whose electorate is largely obvious or latent right-wing extremist.

With regard to media reports on a new report by the Office for the protection of the constitution on the AfD, the foundation emphasized that the scientific concept for measuring the settings of the voters cannot be equated with the categories of the security authority.

7.7 percent of all voters with a uniform right-wing extremist worldview

According to the study, 7.7 percent of all voters in Germany represent a uniform right-wing extremist view of the world. Chauvinist settings are widespread.

This includes researchers such as the desire for more "courage for a strong national feeling", after a "hard and energetic enforcement of German interests compared to abroad" and the goal of "giving Germany the power and recognition that deserves" the top German maxim policy.

Among the voters of the Union parties and the FDP, just more than 60 percent of such statements in the survey in whole or in part. It was 90 percent of the AfD voters. Here, too, the Greens formed the opposite pole: among their supporters, this Chauvinism value is 34 percent below all other parties.