And although nothing prevents these people from expressing their private opinions, the main complaint against the channel is that ARD is a public broadcaster. This means that all German citizens, regardless of their political views, pay a monthly tax for their work, even if they do not watch television. Because of its public character, ARD should have stayed out of the power struggle and not played the game of one or another political force.
However, on the eve of the important elections for the party of the current German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Brandenburg, the television channel broadcast a whole series of “One Hundred” programmes, clearly directed against the “Alternative for Germany”, a German opposition party that threatens to overthrow the ruling coalition in local elections, as it has already done in Saxony and Thuringia.
