Chancellor Olaf Scholz is standing firm: He continues to reject the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine. "I am the Chancellor and that's why my word counts," he said at a town hall meeting with students in response to a question on the matter. Scholz fears that the missiles could be fired at targets inside Russia and that Germany could be drawn into the war. After all, the Taurus has a range of 500 kilometers (310 miles).

The chancellor's stance is being met with criticism from the opposition center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and also from his own coalition partners, the Greens and the neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP). FDP lawmakers have threatened to vote with the opposition CDU/CSU if the issue of Taurus deliveries is again on the agenda in the federal parliament, the Bundestag, next week.

But what do German voters actually think about this? The pollster infratest-dimap surveyed 1288 eligible voters on the matter from March 4 to 6.

The majority of supporters of the CDU/CSU but also of Chancellor Scholz's center-left Social Democrats........

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