Political mood
Survey: moderate summer balance for Merz
The new Chancellor tries to set positive messages and hopes for a change in mood in the country. According to a survey, this has not yet been shown.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU), according to a survey, goes into the summer break with little tailwind from the population. 32 percent of the eligible voters think that Germany has changed to the worse since he took office, 22 percent feel an improvement, 37 percent see no change at all. This was the result of a YouGov survey for the German Press Agency.
Shortly after taking office in May, Merz said in a government declaration in the Bundestag: “I want you to feel, dear citizens of our country, in summer: something is slowly changing here;
One of the best federal governments in decades?
A few days ago, the approval of the Chancellor’s statement that this was one of the best federal governments in recent decades is limited: only 17 percent agree with the full or rather, 71 percent rather not or not at all.
Satisfaction is greater for the Union supporters: 54 percent see an improvement in the country in the country, 11 percent of a deterioration, 28 percent no change. Merz ‘praise that this has been one of the best governments in decades, but is also not fully shared by the supporters of the CDU and CSU: 44 percent agree (rather), 41 percent (rather) not.
Mood dampers electricity tax
A possible mood dampers may have been the decision of the coalition to initially only implement the announced reduction in electricity tax for all for certain companies and agriculture and to make private households outside. 69 percent have no understanding for this, only 23 percent consider this to be (rather) understandable.
Whether the new government, which has been in office for two and a half months, can keep the AfD at a distance, the Germans are shared with a slight trend per merz. 31 percent assume that the Union will be in front of the AfD at the end of its term, 26 percent expect the Union and AfD to be roughly the same and also 26 percent expect that the AfD will then be at the top.
Yougov interviewed 2,192 eligible voters for the representative survey between 11 and 14 July.
dpa
Source: Stern
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