Overview
- The survey, released Tuesday in Magdeburg, classifies 43.5% of residents as solid democrats, 54% as fragile democrats, and 3% as strongly autocratic.
- Researchers found 8.6% with a closed right‑wing extremist orientation, compared with 4.1% nationally and 4.0% across eastern states.
- Prejudicial views were widespread, with 52% favoring a ban on Muslim immigration and 37.8% saying foreigners come to exploit welfare benefits, alongside notable NS relativization at roughly 9%.
- Authoritarian preferences concentrated among party bases, with about two‑thirds of AfD supporters backing a one‑party system and above‑average approval of such models among BSW voters.
- Residents expressed strong local attachment and personal satisfaction, yet trust peaked for the police and state institutions while parties, churches, the federal government and Bundestag drew weak ratings; 60% were optimistic about their own future, only 17% about the state’s, and 70% backed a socio‑ecological transformation.