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Germans unhappy with Chancellor Scholz: Nearly two-thirds of voters want a new government

2023-08-20 11:16:16Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Germans unhappy with Chancellor Scholz: Nearly two-thirds of voters want a new
Olaf Scholz

A poll shows that nearly two-thirds of voters want to "pull the plug" on Germany's ruling coalition. The poll comes on the heels of figures showing most Germans are unhappy with Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his government.

Some 64% of Germans who responded to the poll released on Saturday said a change of government would make the country a better place.

What else did the survey show ?

Only 22% of respondents from polling agency INSA wanted to keep the current governing coalition. The same percentage said they were satisfied with Olaf Scholz's job as chancellor, with 70% saying they were not.

Pollsters also asked about the so-called "traffic light" coalition of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP). Voters were asked how it fared against Chancellor Angela Merkel's "Grand Coalition" of the Christian Democrats/Christian Socialists (CDU/CSU) and the SPD.

Only 10% said the current coalition was doing better, with 49% seeing it as worse. About 28% said the result was mixed depending on the policy areas.

A day earlier, the Politbarometer poll published by Germany's Forschungsgruppe Wahlen (Election Research Group) on behalf of public broadcaster ZDF also showed voter dissatisfaction with Scholz.

It found that 51% were dissatisfied with his performance in office and that 58% thought the government was doing a poor job.

A silver lining for the chancellor was just over half of Germans thought a government led by opposition conservatives would do no better.

There was also historically weak support for Scholz's SPD. Only 19% said they would vote for the party if the election was close, with the Greens at 15% and the FDP at 7%.

The CDU/CSU bloc scored 26% of voter support in the poll, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party received 19%.

AfD leader Tino Chrupalla said on Saturday that his party had the CDU/CSU firmly in its sights, with the AfD's share of voters having risen from 10.3% in the 2021 general election to 21% in the last few months.

"CDU leader Friedrich Merz wanted to cut us in half," Chrupulla said, referring to Merz's claim in 2018 that his party would surely fend off the AfD's challenge from the right. "Instead, we have doubled down," the politician told a conference for the party's branch in the northern state of Lower Saxony.

"We need to cut the CDU in half," he added, also taking a swipe at the Greens as "the most dangerous party" to defeat.


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