Scholz remains interested in voting after the government crisis, but 72% are dissatisfied with his management

MADRID 10 Nov. () –

Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) maintains its voting intention figures after the recent rupture between the parties in the government coalition, although dissatisfaction with the German chancellor’s management has risen above 70 percent.

Thus, the SPD is at 15 this week, falling one percentage point compared to the previous week, while the Greens party remains unchanged at 10 percent, according to the latest survey by the INSA demographic institute, commissioned by the German newspaper ‘Bild’.

The approval rating of the country’s remaining political forces has also not changed, so that the Free Democrats (FDP) – party of the recently dismissed Minister of Economy, Christian Lindner – maintain their rating at 4 percent, even below the 5 percent required to obtain representation in the lower house of the Bundestag, the German Parliament.

The same survey reflects, however, a notable decrease in the satisfaction of the German population with Scholz’s work, which now stands at 72 percent, five points below the last sample.

Among the main reasons for this disapproval are the perception (53 percent) that the chancellor’s behavior towards his opponents and towards the country’s population is “disrespectful”, which has led the majority of respondents to be favorable to “immediate elections.”

This survey occurs in a context of growing political instability in Germany, which could hold early general elections around March after the government crisis and the dissolution of the coalition.

Last Wednesday, Scholz announced the departure of the liberals from the coalition, while ensuring that he would submit to a vote of confidence on January 15, which would imply new elections in March. Although the German Chancellor initially ruled out changing the calendar, this Friday at the end of the informal European Council held in Budapest, he was not so categorical.

Thus, the main opposition leader, Friedrich Merz, is already the official candidate of the conservative bloc for the Chancellery and appears as a favorite in voting intention, while the current Minister of Economy, Robert Habeck, announced this Friday his intention to run as a candidate for the Los Verdes party, a member of the current government coalition.