A third of Germans believe that they live in a "fictitious democracy". These are the data from a recent survey by the Allensbach Institute.

One of Germany's largest public opinion research institutions, the Allensbach Institute for Demoscopy, has published a representative survey of the population, according to which a third of Germans doubt the German political system.

“The differences between east and west [of Germany] are again striking in this review,” notes Die Welt.

According to the survey, 31% of participants said they live in a "bogus democracy" "in which citizens have nothing to say." At the same time, if in West Germany 28% of respondents think so, then in the East German federal states this opinion is already represented by 45% of respondents.

28% of all Germans believe that the democratic system in Germany should be "fundamentally changed".