In a clinch: Finance Minister Christian Linder (FDP) and Family Minister Lisa Paus (Greens)
Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Kay Nietfeld
By Roman Eichinger
The political summer break is coming to an end, the traffic light chaos remains.
New highlight this week: Family Minister Lisa Paus (54, Greens) blocks the growth law of Finance Minister Christian Lindner (44, FDP). And Chancellor Olaf Scholz (65, SPD)? Watch as his coalition drifts further and further apart…
The clear majority of people in Germany are now fed up with traffic lights! Almost two-thirds want a new government. A current INSA survey for BILD (1004 representatively selected respondents on August 17 and 18) revealed: 64 percent think that a change of government would do Germany good. Not even one in four (22 percent) would like to keep the traffic light.
Around half of those surveyed (49 percent) even say that the unpopular grand coalition has done a better job than red-green-yellow. Only 15 percent think the traffic light is doing better than the previous government made up of Union and SPD (equally good/bad: 28 percent).
Particularly unpopular: the chancellor! 70 percent of voters are now dissatisfied with the work of Olaf Scholz – a record. Only 22 percent agree with the Chancellor’s work.
The SPD also falls in the BamS Sunday trend: At 18 percent, it is two points below the previous week and is now already three points behind the AfD, which remained unchanged at 21 percent.
The CDU/CSU with 27 percent (plus 1), the Greens with 14 percent (plus 1) and the FDP with 8 percent (plus 1) can increase slightly. The left remains at 5 percent, the others come to 7 percent (minus 1).