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Friedrich Merz: Crisis of trust before the Chancellor’s election
He is not even in office and already has a Chancellor Malus. Already in the election campaign, many citizens saw Friedrich Merz critically. Now he has lost reputation.
On May 6th, Friedrich Merz would like to be chosen as head of government. He would start in office with a chancellor malus. Even in the Bundestag election campaign, his image was only mediocre. The CDU leader’s call continued to suffer during the coalition negotiations.
Doubts about the leadership of Friedrich Merz
Particularly dramatic: only every fifth (21 percent) considers the Chancellor to be trustworthy. That is nine percentage points less than in August and three percentage points less than in January. That shows that star–Property profile that Forsa raises at irregular intervals for top politicians. For comparison: in the Bundestag election on February 23, 28.5 percent voted for the CDU/CSU. Just with a criterion, Merz now reaches more than 50 percent: 61 percent of Germans find that he is in an understandable way. Compared to January, the loss for the politician is particularly large in two properties: only 40 percent of Germans consider him a strong leadership. And only 27 percent say that he knows what people move. Friedrich Merz is particularly likeable.
The judgment of the CDU and CSU voters is significantly more positive. Of them, Merz attributes about 71 percent leadership and 79 percent competence. But even with their own supporters, the expected future chancellor has lost credibility: only 53 percent consider him trustworthy – that is eight percentage points less than in January. After all, Merz can improve somewhat among the voters of the future coalition partner: 40 percent of the SPD supporters now consider him competent (+ 11 percentage points) and 18 percent as trustworthy (+ 9 percentage points).
Merz once announced that he halved the AfD. At the moment, he hardly convinces their grown followers: only 14 percent consider him leading to leadership, only 13 percent to be competent and just three percent say that he is trustworthy.
The data was collected by the market and opinion research institute Forsa for the Stern and RTL Germany on April 15 and 16. Database: 1006 respondents. Statistical fault tolerance: +/- 3 percentage points. This means that the survey is representative.
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Source: Stern
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