Federal election
This is how the parties currently stand in the polls
After the traffic light goes out, there will be early federal elections in Germany next year. Current surveys show how the parties are doing in the favor of the Germans.
It was already clear that a new Bundestag would be elected in Germany in 2025. The last elections took place on September 26, 2021. Now the new election is coming sooner than expected. On November 6th, Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired FDP Finance Minister Christian Linder, thereby sealing the end of the traffic light coalition. The next steps: The Chancellor asks the Bundestag a vote of confidence, which is then asked by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to dissolve the Bundestag, which clears the way for new elections. Steinmeier has already signaled that he is clearing the way for the early elections to take place on February 23, 2025.
Scholz hopes that he can continue as chancellor afterward, and CDU candidate Friedrich Merz also hopes to move into the chancellor’s office. The graphic below shows how the parties are currently popular with voters and how their values have developed.
You can see in the graphic below which party constellations currently have over 50 percent approval in the surveys and can therefore hope to form a coalition.
The data in the graphics shown is based on surveys by the opinion institute Forsa. Forsa asks the so-called Sunday question every week to find out who voters would vote for if there were a federal election next Sunday.
The FDP ministers are gone – except for one: This is what the new cabinet looks like
Olaf Scholz (SPD) will remain head of government as Chancellor after the end of the traffic light coalition. However, Scholz has announced that he will soon ask the Bundestag for a vote of confidence
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In the gallery: Three FDP ministers have left Olaf Scholz’s government. In the photo series you can see the new cabinet, which probably won’t work together for long.
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Source: Stern
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