Pew Study: World Prefers Angela Merkel To 'Low Status' Trump
- World Prefers Angela Merkel to Donald Trump: Pew study - DW (Deutsche Welle), Oct. 1, 2018. *EXCERPTS:
A US-based research center has surveyed 26,000 people in 25 countries and found few with confidence in President Donald Trump to do the right thing. His low status is nearly matched by the Russian and Chinese leaders.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel came out top of a new Pew survey with 52 percent of respondents expressing confidence in her to "do the right thing regarding world affairs."
Seventy percent said they had "no confidence" in US President Donald Trump.
The Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan American fact tank based in Washington, published its findings on Monday after it surveyed more than 26,000 people in 25 countries.
Trump had the lowest ratings in Mexico, where just 6 per cent of people expressed confidence in his leadership. In Europe, 7 percent expressed confidence in Trump in Spain, 9 percent in France, 10 percent in Germany and 28 percent in the UK.
Merkel's popularity was the highest in the Netherlands, according to the data, as 85 per cent viewed her positively. She was least liked in Greece, where just 15 per cent expressed confidence.
Survey respondents were asked their views on five world leaders: Trump, Merkel, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russia's Vladimir Putin and France's Emmanuel Macron. Worldwide, Trump came bottom of the list.
Europe's right-wing populists. Among Europe's right-wing populist parties, there was more confidence expressed for Trump. The favorable view was strongest in the UK where 53 percent of supporters of the anti-immigrant, Brexit-supporting UKIP party expressed confidence in Trump, although 21 percent did not.
In Sweden, 32 percent of Sweden Democrats supporters had a favorable view of the US president, in France it was 28 percent of National Front supporters, in Italy 38 percent of League supporters, in the Netherlands, 32 percent of Party for Freedom backers, and in Germany, 25 percent of Alternative for Germany (AfD) supporters expressed a favorable view.
Preference for US as leading power. Asked if they would prefer the US or China as the leading power, respondents made the US the overwhelming choice...
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