Who would you elect directly as Federal Chancellor?

Huge poll success for Habeck and the Greens

Created: 08/17/2022 05:21

By: Patrick Mayer

For the Greens in the federal government: Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck.

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If there were a general election: According to the RTL/ntv trend barometer, the Greens of the CDU and CSU Union would currently be contesting the chancellorship.

Robert Habeck in particular does well in the survey.

Munich/Berlin – "Report for duty." With these words, Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Die Grünen)

recently began a video interview with the said daily newspaper from Munich, according to the

, although the 52-year-old North German is with his family in that very same Northern Germany was on a short summer vacation.

Poll on the Federal Chancellor: Robert Habeck (Greens) comes off better than Olaf Scholz (SPD)

The Ukraine war, Vladimir Putin, the gas crisis: In difficult times, the Vice Chancellor stoically tries to take away the worries about the future from the Germans in the face of difficult days in television interviews (e.g. with ZDF’s “heute journal”) and through public statements.

This is exactly what seems to be going down well with the voters.

Because: According to the RTL/ntv trend barometer, many of them would like the Greens politician to be Chancellor if they could elect the head of government directly - which is not possible.

And if the parliament were to be elected at the moment, which will not be the case until autumn 2025 in the form of the 21st federal election.

Specifically: According to the survey, 26 percent (- 1 percentage point) of all those eligible to vote would currently choose Habeck and only 22 percent (- 2) for the incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD).

An unchanged 16 percent would vote for the CDU chairman Friedrich Merz.

Who would you elect directly as Federal Chancellor?

According to the survey, Merz lagged behind Habeck

Source: RTL/ntv trend barometer, as of August 16;

Note: The survey was conducted between August 5th and 8th, 2022.

n = 1,000 persons entitled to vote in Germany were surveyed online.

The data was weighted to be representative of the voting population in Germany according to age, gender, education, region and previous voting behavior.

But also through the indirect election, which is the Bundestag election via elected representatives and majorities, the Greens of the Union from the CDU and CSU could currently contest the chancellorship.

Because: According to the RTL/ntv trend barometer, the Greens are increasing in favor with voters this week to 25 percent (+ 1 percentage point).

They are only just behind the Union, which comes to 26 percent as in the previous week.

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In the video: This is Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens)

RTL/ntv trend barometer: The Greens could contest the chancellorship of the CDU/CSU

The ruling SPD, on the other hand, only gets 18 percent.

The AfD would also move into the German Bundestag with 11 percent (+ 1) and the FDP with 6 percent.

The left (4 percent), on the other hand, would miss out on entering parliament in Berlin after several bitter defeats in state elections.

Overall, it is a great poll success for Vice Chancellor Habeck.

This also shows that Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock's support from Green supporters is 58 percent, significantly lower than that of the native of Lübeck, at 73 percent.