A survey published Wednesday has found that four out of ten voters in Germany are worried about the country’s political future.
With less than seven weeks to go before , 39% of respondents told YouGov pollsters that they were concerned, and 15% said they were frustrated with political leaders.
The governing center-left Social Democrats (SPD) of Chancellor Olaf Scholz have “trust and competence problems,” the study found, with 50% of those polled saying that they do not want the SPD to be part of the next government. About 46% of people said that the SPD was responsible for ‘s current economic woes, and a mere 11% said they felt the party was competent to handle the economy.
The survey also showed that even past SPD voters had lost faith, with only 55% of those who chose the center-left in 2021 still feeling like the party cared about them.
Conservatives have clear lead
As in other polls, the center-right (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party, the CSU, were clearly in the lead less than two months out from .
Some 29% of respondents said they would be voting CDU/CSU, followed by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) with 21%.
The SPD, on the other hand, is looking at a historic low of 16%, while their coalition partners the Greens were coming in fourth with 14%.
As for the Free Democrats (FDP), the pro-business party who withdrew from the coalition in November and triggered the collapse of government that led to the early elections, they were hovering around the 5% hurdle necessary to enter the Bundestag.
The YouGov survey recorded the opinions of 1,908 voters in early January.
es/lo (dpa, YouGov)
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