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Traffic light coalition: Majority of Germans are disappointed with the traffic light

2022-12-03T10:51:02.408Z


Germans are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the current government. That shows a SPIEGEL survey. In one part of the country the resentment is particularly great.


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Traffic light politicians Lindner, Scholz, Habeck (in August in Meseberg): bad report from the Germans

Photo: Kay Nietfeld / dpa

The so-called “progress coalition” has been in office for almost a year.

However, many Germans do not see the federal government as progressive as the SPD, Greens and FDP would like to see themselves.

This is shown by a survey by the opinion research institute Civey on behalf of SPIEGEL (read an interview with traffic light politicians on the anniversary here).

61 percent of people give the traffic light a bad report, a large proportion of them even rate the work of the traffic light as "very negative" (45 percent).

In contrast, only 29 percent are satisfied with the policies of the coalition.

In eastern Germany in particular, people are apparently disappointed with the work of the coalition.

In Saxony-Anhalt, for example, just 12 percent are satisfied with the traffic light government.

But even in Schleswig-Holstein, the federal state in which the citizens apparently have the fewest complaints, the level of satisfaction is only 35 percent.

However, people in Saxony are particularly dissatisfied: 80 percent rate the work of the governing coalition there negatively.

As expected, voters in the Union think relatively little of traffic lights.

The anger of the left and AfD voters is also not surprising.

But even those who voted for one of the traffic light parties in the federal election were apparently disappointed: 73 percent of FDP voters are dissatisfied with the work of the coalition, only 15 percent are satisfied.

In the capital, the feeling creeps in that the liberals often prevail in the three-party alliance.

On the other hand, SPD and Green voters are quite satisfied.

Given these values, it is hardly surprising that the majority of Germans would prefer to vote for the Union rather than the SPD.

If there were a federal election on Sunday, 28 percent of those surveyed would tick the CDU or CSU.

Behind them are the Greens in second place with 21 percent.

The SPD can only reach 19 percent in the Sunday question.

The FDP comes to seven percent.

In recent months, the Greens had already overtaken the SPD in the Civey polls.

From May, the Chancellor's party had slumped significantly, while the Union kept gaining ground.

The Greens have also tended to be on the upswing since then.

For the FDP, on the other hand, things are going downhill.

So the federal government cannot exactly celebrate a happy anniversary.

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Source: spiegel

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