Popularity queried: Corona expert Lauterbach rushes off in the survey - Söder is catching up
Created: 04/05/2022, 12:12 p.m
By: Patrick Mayer
Federal Minister of Health: Karl Lauterbach from the SPD.
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In the most recent survey on the popularity of top politicians, Corona specialist Lauterbach has to accept a setback.
In contrast to Markus Söder and Robert Habeck.
Munich/Berlin – How seriously does Germany still take the coronavirus pandemic?
At least the Corona crisis has been pushed aside thematically by the Russia-Ukraine war - as far as the public debate is concerned.
Instead, such images and impressions are becoming more and more common: At Munich Central Station, you come across rows of people without face masks on their faces.
Or they wear these under the chin.
And this despite the fact that FFP2 masks are still mandatory.
Survey on German top politics: Habeck is ahead of Scholz and Lauterbach
Is there a connection?
In any case, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) is responsible for the Covid expertise in the traffic light federal government made up of SPD, Greens and FDP.
And: According to the latest
INSA
survey for the
Bild
, the 59-year-old Rhinelander is losing popularity among top politicians.
Because he is less in the public eye?
Because Corona no longer has this presence?
The survey does not answer this question.
But those after a supposed ranking among the top German politicians.
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According to the representative survey of German voters, Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (The Greens) defended his first place.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) is in second place.
He thus takes over the position of Minister of Health Lauterbach, who is still on the podium in third place.
Expressed in sports language.
And what about within the Union?
CSU boss Markus Söder apparently dominates this.
The 55-year-old Franconian climbs from eighth to fifth place, while CDU boss Friedrich Merz is only ninth.
Traffic light?
Union?
Further findings of the INSA survey on German top politicians
In the INSA opinion trend, the CDU/CSU are the strongest party with 26 percent.
Followed by the SPD (25 percent).
But the traffic light coalition has a clear majority of 53 percent of the votes.
The Greens get 17.5 percent approval, the FDP comes to 10 percent.
The left (4.5 percent), on the other hand, would remain below the 5 percent hurdle for the German Bundestag.
Within the Union, the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) is ahead of CDU boss Friedrich Merz in the voters' favour.
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