Friedrich Merz: This is how the Germans think about his foreign policy

Paris, Warsaw, Brussels and Kyiv. Friedrich Merz (CDU) started a comprehensive visit tour after his election as Chancellor. It was one of his main criticism of his predecessor Olaf Scholz (SPD) that he hadn’t done enough for the Franco-German relationship. Especially the relationship with French President Emmanuel Macron was too bad.

A large majority of citizens expect Friedrich Merz to be well represented German interests in the world. Like a Forsa survey for the star As a result, 58 percent of Germans see the diplomatic commitment of the new head of government positively. 37 percent have doubts, five percent do not comment. After the survey values ​​had dropped before the chancellor’s election, this is good news for the CDU leader.

The Union’s voters in particular see the foreign policy offensive of the new Chancellor positively (92 percent), but also with the supporters of the SPD (72 percent) and the Greens (69 percent), the majority appreciate this. The East Germans are more skeptical. They only expect 45 percent that Merz represents the Federal Republic abroad well, 48 percent negative.

The data was made by the market and opinion research institute Forsa for the star and RTL Germany on May 8th and 9th. Database: 1009 respondents. Statistical fault tolerance: +/- 3 percentage points. This means that the survey is representative.