A survey reveals dissatisfaction with the traffic light coalition.
Compared to the 2021 federal election, the Union and AfD have seen significant growth.
Frankfurt – Too much patronage politics harms the traffic light coalition, that has now emerged from a new Forsa survey commissioned
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RTL
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ntv .
While the Greens can enjoy greater popularity among voters, the other traffic light parties would have to reckon with a loss of votes.
The dissatisfaction of the population with the traffic light government is helping the opposition in particular.
Traffic light loses popular support: Losses for SPD and FDP – opposition benefits
If there were a federal election next Sunday, the Greens would probably be the biggest winner from the traffic light alliance.
According to the current
RTL/ntv
trend barometer, the party would grow by four percentage points among those surveyed, bringing it to a total of 18 percent.
On the other hand, things look worse for the Social Democrats and the Liberals: the SPD would end up with 18 percent, but would fall by 7.5 percentage points.
The FDP would only come to seven percent, which would mean a drop of 4.5 percent.
With an increase of six percentage points, the CDU/CSU would emerge as the clear winner from a potential federal election.
According to the trend barometer, they would eventually reach 30 percent.
A government without the Union would not be possible.
Friedrich Merz also overtakes Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) for the first time this year in terms of Chancellor preference.
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The traffic light coalition can no longer count on unlimited support from the population, as a Forsa survey showed.
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According to the results of the survey, the AfD would also have recorded significant gains in votes.
Overall, 14 percent of voters would have opted for them, which would be an increase of 3.5 percentage points.
The "genderization" of the language also scares off the majority of voters who do not belong to them.
They prefer to turn to the Union or AfD.
Too much trouble in the traffic light coalition: there is no common line
The traffic light parties are not pulling together enough and are therefore increasingly losing the population's trust, as the Forsa survey revealed.
There is no doubt that there are many controversial issues in the traffic light and that there are frequent rumblings within the coalition.
Experts even warned of an impending break in the coalition.
Above all, there is no consensus on how to implement the climate targets.
Instead of finding a consensus, small subgroups of the electorate are repeatedly satisfied.
The 9-euro ticket in the summer of 2022 was a win for the supporters of the Greens, FDP interests were met with the tank discount and Volker Wissing’s aversion of the speed limit.
But when it comes to speed limits in particular, the question arises as to who politics is being made for, because in 2022 57% of Germans were still in favor of a maximum speed on motorways, as a YouGov survey showed.
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But soon Chancellor?
According to the Forsa survey, Friedrich Merz is the preferred candidate.
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz confuses the population with terms: "double boom" and "energy price brake"
The Forsa survey also revealed that many expressions of the traffic light politicians are met with question marks by large parts of the population.
"Gas surcharge" or "energy price brake" are terms that many people apparently have no idea what to do with.
The "double boom" coined by Olaf Scholz and the many variations of the term "Wende" are just empty phrases for many.
An announced change in energy, agriculture or even times has so far hardly been followed by concrete implementation.
(Maibrit Schueltken)
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