Two thirds of Germans - 67 percent - would like the grand coalition of CDU, CSU and SPD to rule until the end of the legislative period in 2021. This is the result of a representative survey by Kantar Public for SPIEGEL.
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The GroKo has the most supporters, 90 percent, among Union supporters, closely followed by those of the SPD with 80 percent. Among the supporters of the FDP are 73 percent for the continued existence of the GroKo until next year, 72 percent for those of the Greens, 55 percent for those of the left.
Among AfD supporters alone, the fans are clearly in the minority: just under one in five, 19 percent, would like the elected government to hold.
A woman is the big climber on the SPIEGEL political staircase: Ursula von der Leyen. The CDU politician has catapulted the new role as President of the EU Commission to second place in the favor of German citizens, after the Federal President and even ahead of the Federal Chancellor (third place).
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EU Commission President Von der Leyen: catapulted to second place
47 percent of the 1053 surveyed by Kantar Public on behalf of SPIEGEL wish Von der Leyen an "important role" in the future, six percentage points more than in the last survey in October.
In addition to Von der Leyen, only Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier (CDU) was able to gain new sympathy: he increased by 5 percentage points, to a total of 37 percent, and is therefore level 9, right after FDP leader Christian Lindner (39 percent) and CDU man Jens Spahn (40 percent).
Unknown new SPD leadership
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) lost 6 percentage points in popularity during the same period, slipping from 2nd to 6th place. Olaf Scholz (SPD) is now ahead of him with 43 percent and, with Scholz, Markus Söder (CSU). It can be explained that the new SPD chairmen Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans only ended up in places 17 and 18: the two newcomers on the stairs were unknown to more than a third of those surveyed.
Esken and Walter-Borjans, with 15 percent each, are on par with Andreas Scheuer, the much better known but luckless Federal Minister of Transport. The most unpopular is the AfD party leader Jörg Meuthen. Only 12 percent of those surveyed on behalf of SPIEGEL wish him to play an important role in the future.
When asked about wishes for the general orientation of the federal government's policy, 52 percent of the respondents chose the answer option: a stronger social-ecological orientation; 24 percent chose: more liberal-conservative.
Global warming trumps other problems: 42 percent of all respondents consider climate protection to be the most important issue for the upcoming German EU Council Presidency in the second half of 2020. This is followed by the other predefined answer options migration (27 percent), digitization (17 percent) and equality between men and women (11 percent).
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