As of: January 23, 2024, 7:22 p.m
By: Nils Hinsberger
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In the latest surveys, several traffic light politicians continue to fall.
The leading ministers are more unpopular than ever.
An exception comes from the SPD.
Berlin – The traffic light coalition is in crisis.
The approval of the population has fallen significantly due to the past mistakes made by the government under Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD).
The ever-increasing disputes within the government alliance, the botched federal budget and the recent cuts in agricultural subsidies have clearly eroded the government's reputation.
The latest surveys show how poor support for traffic lights is among the German population.
As the opinion research institute
Ipsos
reports, the traffic light politicians are falling significantly in terms of their popularity.
In particular, the traffic light leadership consisting of Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP), Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) and Chancellor Scholz is losing massive amounts of support.
According to the survey, the most popular minister at the traffic light comes from the SPD
According to Ipsos,
the Green Party politician Habeck is in last place in the traffic light ranking
.
As the survey shows, 59 percent of Germans say they are dissatisfied with the work of the economics minister.
Only 12 percent expressed satisfaction with the Green politician.
The
Insa opinion trend
commissioned by
Bild
also sees Habeck's popularity on the decline and places him in 16th place among Germany's most popular politicians - just ahead of Scholz and Interior Minister Nancy Faeser.
According to surveys, the majority of Germans are dissatisfied with their politics.
Robert Habeck (l.), Olaf Scholz (m.) and Christian Lindner (r.).
© IMAGO / Political Moments
Scholz and Lindner follow closely behind Habeck.
57 percent of those surveyed were very dissatisfied with the Federal Chancellor's work.
The situation is similar with Lindner, with whose work 53 percent of Germans do not agree.
In the
Insa opinion trend,
Scholz is in 13th place. Things only look slightly better for Lindner in 9th place.
Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) proves that there is another way.
According to the survey, with 28 percent of respondents being very satisfied with Pistorius, he leads the traffic light's popularity rating.
Insa
also confirms this
and ranks Pistorius as the most popular politician in Germany at the moment.
Nevertheless, 30 percent of those surveyed would express dissatisfaction with the defense minister, as
can be seen from the
Ipsos survey .
Greens want less arguing at traffic lights after polls hit lows
The fact that the traffic light government's policies are causing great discontent among the population has obviously not gone unnoticed by the coalition partners.
The Greens in particular now want to focus on a better culture of debate in the government, reports the
dpa
.
The Green party leaders Katharina Dröge and Britta Haßelmann said that we need to get better at explaining decisions to the traffic light partners.
Although you want to avoid arguments, you can't avoid struggling to make decisions.
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“All three traffic light parties will remain independent parties,” said Dröge.
Within the government it is now a matter of finding compromises.
According to Dröge, this is the “core of democracy.
SPD chairman Lars Klingbeil also recognizes that the dispute within the traffic lights is a central problem.
“The fact that three different parties sometimes have different answers is part of it, but there was too much argument,” notes Klingbeil.
It remains to be seen whether the traffic light can offset the low in the polls and avert the increasing calls for new elections.
Defense Minister Pistorius' survey results show that traffic light politicians can also enjoy widespread popularity.
(nhi/dpa)