Municipal Election in Frankfurt 1989

Judgement on questions of municipal policies a few days before the
municipal election in Frankfurt.

Topics: most important problems of the city; intent to participate in
the election and party preference; behavior at the polls in the last
municipal election; sympathy scale for selected parties and politicians
at federal and municipal level; satisfaction with the achievements of
federal and state government as well as municipal authorities in
Frankfurt; order of preferred parties; attitude to an absolute majority
of one party in the city council; coalition preference; mayor
preference; issue competence of the two major parties in economic
questions, housing policy, culture policy and policies towards
foreigners; comparison of the economic situation of the city with the
rest of the federal territory; attitude to admission of ethnic Germans
from Eastern Europe as well as admission of politically persecuted
asylum-seekers; attitude to foreigners in Frankfurt and the right for
foreigners to vote in municipal elections; contacts with foreigners;
left-right orientation; significance of the municipal election for the
future of the city; assumed election winner; attitude to the
Republicans; knowledge of instances of bribery in the Frankfurt city
government as well as party impacted; job security; living together
with a partner; completed government examination or diploma or
completed journeymen´s test; civil service career as well as service
rank for soldiers; union membership; religiousness.