After 8 months in office, German chancellor faces dehydration in the face of public opinion
Search from the Insa institute held from 15 to 19 August 2022 showed that 62% of Germans disapprove of the work of Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The rate grew 23 percentage points in 5 months. In the March survey, 39% rated the government negatively.
On the other hand, only 1 in 4 Germans approve of Scholz management – a drop of 21 pp in the same period. The survey was commissioned by the Sunday newspaper Bild am Sonntag.
Support for Scholz’s SPD (Social Democratic Party) dropped to 19%. This result is worse than the party’s performance in the September 2021 federal elections, which elected the chancellor. At the time, the SPD had 25.7% of the votes.
The party formed a coalition with the Green Party, the 3rd most voted in the election. You greens –with 21%– are better evaluated than the Social Democrats, which is also seen worse in relation to the CDU (Christian Democratic Union), of former Chancellor Angela Merkel, which scores 28%.
Scholz has been in office for 8 months. He took over in December 2021 with the difficult mission of continuing the Merkel era, which spent 16 years in power (2005-2021). The current prime minister was Merkel’s deputy chancellor from 2018 to 2021, but Merkel supported her party candidate, Armin Laschet.
Since taking office, Scholz has been racking up crises in the Bundestag – the German parliament. In February, the war between Russia and Ukraine began. The conflict has caused a gas shortage in Germany, which is dependent on imports from Russia.
The energy crisis is yet another chapter of German dissatisfaction with the prime minister. The energy bill continues to grow, as does inflation. Finally, the drought that hits Europe and is lowering the level of rivers in the country.
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