The rating of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) continues to fall and is only 14%, while the rating of fired Finance Minister Christian Lindner, which left the ruling coalition Free Democratic Party (FDP), rose to 5%, according to the institute INSA survey.
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The leader, as before, remains the opposition bloc of the Christian Democratic and Christian Social Unions (CDU/CSU) with a rating of 32%. In second place is the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party with 19%.
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The Greens, who remained in the coalition with the SPD, are in fourth place with 11% of respondents ready to vote for them. Another party that can overcome the 5% threshold for entering parliament is the Sara Wagenknecht Union for Reason and Justice (SUV): its rating is 7%.
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The Left party, which is part of the Bundestag, has a rating of 4%, risking not getting into the next parliament.
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The survey was conducted on November 21-22 and involved 1,001 people.
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Germany faced a serious government crisis in early November after Finance Minister Lindner (FDP) was fired at Scholz’s insistence. Among the reasons for this decision, he named the latter’s reluctance, within the framework of state budget planning, to simultaneously approve an increase in spending to support Ukraine and investing in the future of Germany.
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The date for likely early elections as a result of a split in the government is set for February 23 next year. In order to meet the deadline, Scholz will send a written request to the Bundestag on December 11 asking for confidence in him in this post, and on December 16 the corresponding debate will take place in the Bundestag.
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If Scholz expresses confidence, he will be able, led by a minority government (Social Democrats and Greens), to begin coalition negotiations with other parties. This scenario is considered unlikely due to the almost universal consensus in the Bundestag on the need for early elections.
