The crash of the CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer ("AKK") in the favor of the Germans continues. Just 29 percent of the 1061 citizens surveyed as representative of Kantar Public's SPIEGEL Political Stairs wish her a "more important role".
Compared to its peak of last December, they lost half of their percentage points and is only in the midfield of the most important politicians.
Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, who wants to become SPD leader, achieved, however, a much better value. Horst Seehofer, Markus Söder and Ursula von der Leyen are the "climbers" since the survey three months ago.
In the comparison of five possible chancellor candidates as successor of Angela Merkel nobody reached a majority positive approval of all interviewees. However, Kramp-Karrenbauer is the worst off in this survey. Even among its own party supporters, they find no majority as a possible Chancellor.
This is probably not the alternatives: Armin Laschet, the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, think that hardly any of the surveyed Union supporters are suitable. The Bavarian Prime Minister and CSU man Markus Söder still experiences the greatest approval in the comparison of the three Union politicians.
Olaf Scholz and the Green Party chief Robert Habeck are comparatively well off the possible candidates of the Union. But while the SPD supporters (57 percent approval) are behaving towards Scholz, Habeck finds a stronger support (70 percent) in their own ranks.
Almost two-thirds of Germans are annoyed that AfD has established itself in the German party system. Rejection is slightly higher in the West than in the East, more widespread among women than among men - and growing with education. Thirty years after the reunification of Germany, the event is rather soberly perceived as a "historical fact". Only a good third of Germans proudly fulfill the restored unit. But few citizens said they were disappointed.
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