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Due to the total dominance of the Corona crisis, confidence in politics in general, but especially in the federal government’s problem-solving abilities, has increased dramatically. This is the conclusion of the democratic findings of the “majority vote initiative” for the year 2020. As Johannes Klotz of OGM explained in Wednesday’s presentation, 56 percent of those surveyed said they think the government will solve more problems. this year. tried.
This is the highest value since the survey began, according to Klotz. But politics in general is also benefiting from the current situation under the sign of the pandemic. 52 percent say they have confidence in politics, which, according to Klotz, means majority confidence in politics in general for the first time. Trust in the actors involved is somewhat lower, but compared to previous years it is high. Six percent of those surveyed said they were very confident, up 39 percent. Only 15 percent have no confidence.
With just under a third of those surveyed (27 percent), the federal government is enjoying a leap of faith in the coming year when it comes to solving problems. But about a third (34 percent) are skeptical about it.
800 people were surveyed who are representative of the Internet savvy population and approximately 90 percent of the total population. The maximum fluctuation range is plus / minus three and a half percent. The survey period was September 21-23, when the start of the second wave was being discussed, according to Klotz.
“Political negligence and superficiality”
The initiative’s president and former president of the Second National Council, Heinrich Neisser (ÖVP), diagnosed an “extraordinary moment” with challenges to democracy and the rule of law due to the pandemic when the annual report on democracy was presented. He criticized the “frivolous handling of the problems of the rule of law.” The rule of law is closely related to language, so it doesn’t matter how semantically it is talked about. In this context, he criticized the statement of Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP), according to which the criticism of lawyers to the legal implementation of the Corona measures referred to “legal subtleties”.
The federal government has a “special responsibility” and must ensure that everything is verified for constitutionality. The coalition also needs “joint responsibility”, but instead has the feeling that there are two parties sitting there, each of which is trying to get political profit from it. Neisser criticized the fact that the pandemic was being instrumentalized for the state elections in Vienna. It is about “negligence and political-state superficiality”. In general, he found that the “party state” and the clash of political parties were solidifying. At the same time, the role of Parliament is essentially being neglected.
