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Survey coup for Lauterbach: Minister of Health in popularity ranking ahead of Scholz

2021-12-20T20:48:39.568Z


Survey coup for Lauterbach: Minister of Health in popularity ranking ahead of Scholz Created: 12/20/2021, 9:38 PM From: Felix Durach Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is ahead of Olaf Scholz in the popularity ranking of German politicians. © Chris Emil Janssen / imago-images Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is ahead of his party colleague and Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the popularity ranking of Ge


Survey coup for Lauterbach: Minister of Health in popularity ranking ahead of Scholz

Created: 12/20/2021, 9:38 PM

From: Felix Durach

Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is ahead of Olaf Scholz in the popularity ranking of German politicians.

© Chris Emil Janssen / imago-images

Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is ahead of his party colleague and Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the popularity ranking of German politicians.

Berlin - Karl Lauterbach (SPD) is now the successor of Jens Spahn as health minister at the federal level for just two weeks.

The medical graduate and health economist was due to his professional background in many places as the desired solution for the Ministry of Health, which had gained enormously in importance due to the ongoing corona pandemic.

A new survey now shows that the 58-year-old is also very popular with the population.

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The opinion research institute INSA recorded

the popularity ratings of the most important German politicians

on behalf of

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. In the weekly ranking, no active politician does better than Karl Lauterbach. The SPD politician achieved a point value of 57.2 in the survey. Lauterbach is not only at the top of the ministers from the Ampel government, but also ahead of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who ranks third with slight losses (52.8). First place is still former Chancellor Angela Merkel (58.1).

The top 5 in the INSA survey is rounded off by two other members of the Scholz cabinet.

Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir (Greens) lost slightly compared to the previous week (48.5), but is still in 4th place. The current Green Party leader and Economics Minister Robert Habeck (47.9) can not improve his polls, but is still increasing to fifth place.

Finance Minister Christian Lindner (47.2) slips to sixth place as the most popular FDP politician in the ranking.

Söder leads Union politicians in a popularity survey - Merz ends up behind Röttgen

With a view to the opposition parties at the federal level, CSU boss Markus Söder (45.6) still performs best despite losses and comes in 7th. The designated CDU boss Friedrich Merz (41.1) can make up three places, but ends up in tenth place one place behind his competitor Norbert Röttgen (42.8). Sahra Wagenknecht (44.3) achieved 8th place as the most popular left-wing politician. Tino Chrupalla (26.2) from the AfD came second to last, ahead of his party colleague Alice Weidel (24.4).

There was hardly any movement this week on the Sunday question.

The Union cannot yet benefit from the election of Friedrich Merz to the party leadership and is losing 0.5 percentage points.

With 21.5 percent, the Union is six points behind the SPD, which gained half a percentage point (27.5).

The polls of the other parties remain unchanged compared to the previous week.

The Greens (14.5) are the third strongest force in the survey, ahead of the coalition partner FDP (13).

AfD (11.5) and Linke (5.5) land in the remaining places.

For the survey, INSA interviewed a total of 2075 people over the age of 18 in Germany between December 17th and 20th.

The maximum margin of error is +/- 2.5 percentage points.

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Source: merkur

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