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The upcoming government: Christian Lindner is to become finance minister in the new cabinet under Chancellor Olaf Scholz
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On Wednesday the SPD, Greens and FDP presented the coalition agreement to the upcoming traffic light government.
Each of the parties tried to negotiate their ideas into the 177-page document.
The relative majority of Germans thinks that the FDP was more successful than the other two parties.
According to a survey by the opinion research institute Civey for the SPIEGEL, around 46 percent of Germans believe that the liberals around party leader Christian Lindner prevailed the most in the traffic light talks.
An equally small part estimates that the coalition agreement bears above all the signature of the SPD or the Greens.
Around a fifth indicate that all three parties contributed equally to the result.
The sampling error is +/- 2.5 percentage points.
You can find out more about the Civey method here.
Supporters of all parties share the assessment that the FDP in particular negotiated well.
Of the potential voters of the traffic light partners, it is above all those of the Greens who share this view.
More than half of them think that the Liberals have pushed through most of the plans.
Remarkable: The Green supporters seem particularly disappointed by the assertiveness of the negotiators around Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck.
Not even ten percent of them are of the opinion that their own party negotiated the best.
The SPD clientele also recognize the FDP signature in the coalition agreement.
Still, almost a quarter of the social democratic supporters are satisfied with the bargaining power of the SPD.
On the part of the Liberals, Christian Lindner, as party leader, played a key role in the negotiations.
In the new cabinet he is to become finance minister under Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
In line with the assessment of the coalition agreement, a relative majority of Germans assume that Lindner will have the greatest influence on the policy of the traffic light coalition in the future.
Instead, 27 percent of those surveyed named Olaf Scholz.
Both party leaders were asked by the Greens: 16 percent estimate that Robert Habeck in particular will influence the coalition, less than five percent give the answer to the former candidate for chancellor and likely Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.
The sampling error is +/- 2.5 percentage points.
It will be a few days before a joint government under Scholz's leadership can begin.
The election of Scholz as Federal Chancellor in the Bundestag is planned for St. Nicholas Week.
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