By IRNA,
Berlin : More than 90 percent of Germans say they have no influence at all over government decisions affecting their daily lives, according to a study released here Wednesday by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, linked to the opposition Social Democratic Party.
Some 94 percent of those respondents pointed out that they had no impact at all on what the government was doing.
Meanwhile, some 90.4 percent said it made ‘no sense’ to them to engage in the country’s political process.
Head of the study Oliver Decker of the University of Siegen, stressed that people were increasingly feeling that their needs were no longer being taken seriously by the country’s political establishment.
Deeply frustrated over their political alienation from the system, many Germans were turning to fascist and far-right ideologies as 5.1 percent of Germans back a dictator.
Every third German would support the mass expulsion of foreigners from Germany.
Nearly 60 percent of those questioned would back restricting the right of Muslims to exercise their religion which is guaranteed by the German constitution.
Summarizing their findings, the authors of the report highlighted ‘a marked increase in anti-democratic and racist attitudes in 2010.’