The month of July was still a record month for the Greens: the ecology party achieved approval ratings that for a long time seemed unreachable: in the SPIEGEL survey shortly after the European elections, it was 25 percent, the highest value ever measured in the election trend. Other surveys even saw them one to two percentage points stronger. The Greens were on par with the Union parties - the Chancellery seemed within reach.
But that was a few months ago. The Greens have settled in front of their party congress at the weekend in Bielefeld now at 20 percent. A still very good value, however, shows: The hype around the party has faded. This emerges from the latest SPIEGEL survey, collected by the polling institute Civey.
If a new Bundestag were elected today, the Greens would rank second with around 20 percent behind the CDU and CSU with 27 percent. Four weeks ago, the Greens had two and a half percentage points more. The SPD remains in comparison to the previous weeks at about 14 percent, almost unchanged, the AfD is 13 percent. In the trend left can increase more than 9 percent and the FDP with just under 9 percent.
The slight downturn in the Greens is presumably related to the course of the climate debate. For months, the topic of the environment and the "Fridays for Future" movement dominated the headlines. But the climax of the debate seems to have passed for the time being - among other things, the issue of pensions in Germany has increasingly come to the fore again.
At this point, the strength and weakness of the Greens is also apparent: many people associate the party with environmental policy in particular. There, the party is given the greatest competence.
Other issues such as business, social affairs and home security, however, the party is less credited (read more here). The Greens remain a one-party party.
This can be read even among the Green supporters: So say 67 percent of respondents, they would choose the party mainly because of their position on environmental policy. By a far distance, the top staff (11 percent) follows as a further reason. By contrast, all other topics play hardly any role for the Green voters.
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