In Germany, the rating of the ruling coalition has fallen to a new historic low. This was reported by the Bild newspaper with reference to the results of a poll conducted by the INSA sociological institute.
Bild reported that if the Bundestag elections were held today, 16 per cent of voters would vote for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), 13 per cent for the Greens and 5 per cent for the Free Democratic Party (FDP). The newspaper emphasised that the currently ruling “traffic light” coalition thus has a combined total of only 34% of the vote.
“This is the lowest figure since the last federal election, when they got 52 per cent. Since then, the popularity of the ruling parties has been steadily declining,” Bild stated.
According to the newspaper, the degree of citizens’ satisfaction with the work of the current government headed by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has also reached a new low. Bild noted that only 24 per cent are satisfied with his service, while 71 per cent are dissatisfied.
Earlier, Focus columnist Ulrich Reitz said that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock had shown weakness by refusing to shake hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. According to the expert, the German representatives tried to make Russia look “isolated” with this gesture.