Dow Jones-Die Purpose researchers from Insa and Forsa consider it excluded that the SPD will be able to catch up until the election date. “I lack the imagination for that,” said the head of the opinion research institute Insa, Hermann Binkert, the Handelsblatt. “The choice was for the SPD.” Forsa boss Manfred Güllner also represents this assessment. CDU boss Friedrich Merz is likely to be the Chancellery in whatever coalition “no longer to be taken, since the dissatisfaction with the SPD has been firmly cemented since the turn of 2023/2024,” Güllner told the Handelsblatt. The resentment of Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the other personnel offer is too great with the exception of Defense Minister Boris Pistorius. Since the SPD “cannot change anything at short notice, it can no longer prevent its election defeat in this federal election”.
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February 09, 2025 07:53 ET (12:53 GMT)