Double survey watschn for the Greens - Habeck even falls behind Merz and Scholz

Created: 09/20/2022, 21:51

By: Felix Durach

Robert Habeck (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) and his party colleague Steffi Lemke take part in their party's parliamentary group meeting in the Reichstag building.

© Kay Nietfeld/dpa

Robert Habeck is not only troubled by the energy crisis.

In a recent survey, the Green Economics Minister had to put up with two setbacks.

Berlin - In the last federal election, Annalena Baerbock led the Greens as the top candidate in their first governing coalition at federal level.

However, the current Foreign Minister clearly missed the chancellery – Baerbock's real goal.

After the election, not a few politically interested people tipped that the Greens would now nominate the Federal Chancellor if Robert Habeck had prevailed against his then co-chairman.

But this - at least felt - mood seems to have changed significantly in the meantime.

Habeck collects survey-Watschn: Minister of Economics on K-question behind Merz and Scholz

Because, as a current survey by the opinion research institute Forsa for RTL/ntv shows, Habeck has apparently lost a lot of favor with voters.

The incumbent Economics Minister has to make further cutbacks in his popularity ratings compared to the previous week.

The participants were asked which candidate they would currently choose if they could elect the Federal Chancellor directly.

The choices were incumbent Olaf Scholz, CDU leader Friedrich Merz and Minister of Economics Habeck.

Only 18 (-3) percent of those questioned would therefore vote for Habeck in this selection.

This puts the Green Minister well behind his two competitors.

Opposition leader Merz got 22 (+2) percent of the votes, the incumbent Chancellor 23 (+2) percent.

Significant: 37 percent would choose none of the three.

When it comes to the chancellor question, Habeck is slipping behind its currently strongest competitors.

Union clearly ahead - Greens have slipped below the 20 percent mark for the first time since April

Habeck's party had to accept a second survey watschn in the traditional Sunday question.

If federal elections were to be held next Sunday, only 19 percent of those polled would vote for the Greens – a further drop of one percentage point compared to the previous week.

The party has slipped below the 20 percent mark for the first time since April this year.

The chancellor party, the SPD, also remains unchanged at 19 percent.

Nine percentage points behind the Union, which cannot improve its poll numbers, but is clearly in first place with 28 percent.

Meanwhile, the FDP improved by one percentage point to 7 percent.

The AfD is unchanged at 13 percent, the left also at 5 percent compared to the previous week.

In the current week, the energy supply remains the topic that concerns Germans the most (80%).

The Ukraine war follows with 56 percent, followed by the death of Queen Elizabeth II (22 percent).

For the survey, 2,506 participants were interviewed between September 13th and 19th.