Value drops

Only one in five Germans is satisfied with Scholz

Germany's Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz(Bild: AFP)

Our neighbors have not given their head of government a good report card: According to a new survey, only around one in five people (19 percent) in Germany are satisfied with the work of Olaf Scholz. This is the lowest figure in an Infratest survey for a Federal Chancellor since 1997.

Germany's Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) and Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) fared only slightly better. Almost one in four people (24%) are satisfied with Habeck's work, compared to 23% for Lindner. CDU leader Friedrich Merz is not faring any better. He lost two percentage points, but with 30 percent of people satisfied, he is far behind Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD, 51 percent). This puts him almost on a par with Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens, 31%).

82% dissatisfied with government work
This result also reflects dissatisfaction with the government's overall work. 82% of the 1321 respondents are less or not at all satisfied with the coalition of SPD, Greens and FDP. 17 percent of eligible voters stated the opposite.

If federal elections were held next Sunday, the CDU/CSU would win (31%). The AfD would gain (to 22%), the Greens would lose slightly (to 13%). The FDP would gain one percentage point (five percent), while the Left Party would miss out on entering the Bundestag (four percent). Germans are divided as to whether the "traffic light" government will last this year.

Respondents selected at random
The opinion research institute infratest dimap surveyed 1321 eligible voters by telephone and online for the ARD Deutschlandtrend. However, the respondents were selected at random and the result is therefore not representative. The fluctuation range is two to three percentage points.