Survey: Olaf Scholz achieves amazing values - even among Union voters
Created: 01/14/2022, 16:12
By: Clara Marie Tietze
Chancellor Olaf Scholz can be happy: the polls speak for his government course.
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Olaf Scholz has been Chancellor for a good month now.
In the polls, the SPD man is riding a wave of success.
Whether he can keep these values?
Berlin – Olaf Scholz has been the ninth chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany since the beginning of December – just over a month later, the polls could hardly be better.
Approval is not only high in his own party ranks, the new Chancellor is also well received by voters across all parties.
This is what the current ZDF "political barometer" shows.
Survey shows: Germans rate Scholz's work positively - Steinmeier too
65 percent of all respondents rated the work of the SPD man as "rather good".
Only 17 percent think that Scholz does his job "rather poorly".
89 percent of SPD sympathizers rated his work positively - but supporters of the Greens (85 percent), the FDP (54 percent), the left (58 percent) and the CDU/CSU (53 percent) also mostly rated Scholz's chancellor performance positive.
Scholz only gets 31 percent approval for his work among AfD supporters.
In the ranking of important politicians, however, his predecessor still does better: on a scale from minus five to plus five, Angela Merkel (CDU) achieves a value of 2.5.
Scholz has to be content with 1.9.
According to the ZDF "Politbarometer", his party is still the strongest force in the Sunday question: According to a survey, 27 percent of voters would choose the SPD in a poll this Sunday.
The Union follows with 22 percent and the Greens with only 16 percent.
The FDP is in fourth place with eleven points, closely followed by the AfD with ten percent.
The Left Party comes to six percent.
ZDF "Politbarometer": The most important topics are Corona and climate protection
Frank-Walter Steinmeier also did well in the current survey: 86 percent of those surveyed stated that the Federal President "does his job rather well".
A total of 81 percent said he should hold the office of Federal President for another five years.
In February, the Federal Assembly will decide on this question.
The respondents rated the corona pandemic (69 percent) and climate protection (33 percent) as the most important issues.
44 percent were positive about the current measures against the corona virus, 30 percent called for tougher measures, and for 22 percent the current requirements were exaggerated.
62 percent were in favor of compulsory vaccination, six percent less than in the last survey.
74 percent of those surveyed rejected the EU Commission's plan to classify nuclear energy as green energy, while only 22 percent voted in favor.
Olaf Scholz's Stasi file also became public this week.