First Austrian poll on the topic (OGM for the newspaper Profil):
73% are against accepting Guantanamo prisoners
19% are for accepting them
Huh, why is Autria so different??
Acording to a Forsa/Stern poll among Germans (released Jan. 28) 49% are supporting it and 44% are opposing it.
Breakdown among party lines (support for accepting former Guantanamo inmates):
Greens 72%
SPD 64%
The Left 51%
FDP 48%
CDU/CSU 42%
http://www.presseportal.de/pm/6329/1342667/gruner_jahr_stern
Ahh, now I know why:
The difference is in the question asked by Forsa:
"... wenn diese offensichtlich unschuldig sind." ("... if they are proven innocent.")
Yes, support is of course higher when you include "provided they are innocent" in the question.
Also, Emnid/N24 seemed to ask if it's primarily a problem of the United States to deal with this or if Germany should make the United States an offer to help out. They didn't really ask whether Germany should accept former Guantanamo detainees.
Of course the priorities could be: 1) If the United States finds a solution that doesn't include Germany, that's fine. 2) However, if it becomes necessary to accept Guanatanmo detainees, we'll do it... provided that they're innocent.
So, 65% think that it's America's problem to solve this, while 25% think that it's Germany's problem (Emnid/N24). If the solution to the problem is that Guantanamo detainees are send to Germany 49% are for it and 44% are against it (Forsa/Stern).
