Corona crisis: survey draws a new Scholz picture - a change of course does not seem to be forgiven

Created: 01/16/2022Updated: 01/16/2022 12:23 p.m

Olaf Scholz (SPD) can look at the first surveys about his work as Chancellor.

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Olaf Scholz has not been Chancellor for that long, but there are already initial surveys of his performance.

The focus is on the mandatory vaccination debate.

Berlin – The government is new, the pandemic is still the same.

And the majority of Germans miss a clear course in corona policy in the new federal government under Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

At least that's what 71 percent of those questioned said in a recent Insa survey for the

.

According to the survey, 23 percent feel the opposite, 6 percent did not provide any information.

61 percent of those surveyed also said that Scholz (SPD) shows too little leadership.

26 percent saw it differently, 13 percent of those surveyed gave no information.

60 percent of those surveyed support a general obligation to vaccinate, 33 percent are against it.

Seven percent did not provide any information on this.

The latest ZDF “Politbarometer” came to a different conclusion.

Here, 65 percent of all respondents said that Scholz was doing his job "rather well" as Chancellor.

Scholz' party colleague Karl Lauterbach warns of a high number of deaths and massive restrictions on hospital treatment in the current omicron wave.

"We are threatened with very difficult weeks in Germany," said the Minister of Health of the

.

CDU politician Frei: "Scholz will not take the lead in the Corona crisis"

Union Scholz took a similar approach last week.

The occasion was the debate about the introduction of a general obligation to vaccinate.

"I would like the Chancellor to present a draft law in any case," said the new parliamentary group manager Thorsten Frei (CDU) on ZDF's "Morgenmagazin".

Scholz has repeatedly emphasized that he sees compulsory vaccination as a necessary measure in the fight against the pandemic.

"And if he does that, then in the worst crisis of our time he also has to present a draft law and cannot stand on the sidelines with his arms crossed and wait to see what happens in parliament," said Frei.

"The Chancellor does not take the lead in the crisis."

In the Bundestag, the obligation to vaccinate should be voted on without the pressure of a faction; the members of parliament are only obliged to their conscience.

The applications should be drawn up across factions.