display
Immediately before the election of the new CDU chairman, a majority of Germans do not consider any of the three applicants to be suitable for chancellor.
In the new ZDF “Politbarometer”, only 29 percent of the participants said that Norbert Röttgen or Friedrich Merz would be suitable as Chancellor, as the broadcaster announced on Friday.
Armin Laschet therefore think that 28 percent are fit for chancellor.
Even among supporters of the Union, according to the information, none of the three is seen as a suitable head of government.
display
The CDU party congress begins on Friday evening and digitally elects the new chairman on Saturday.
Ex-Union faction leader Merz, ex-Federal Environment Minister Röttgen and NRW Prime Minister Laschet are running.
When asked which of the candidates is most likely to lead the CDU successfully into the future, all three men in the survey are close to one another.
28 percent of those surveyed named Merz as a favorite, 28 percent were in favor of Laschet and 24 percent were in favor of Röttgen.
Among Union supporters, Merz is ahead with 37 percent, followed by Röttgen (26 percent) and Laschet (25 percent).
The majority is for Markus Söder
When looking at other potential chancellors, according to the “Politbarometer” Markus Söder is ahead: 54 percent consider the CSU chairman to be suitable for chancellor.
45 percent consider the SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz to be suitable, with Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) it is 32 percent.
Green chairman Robert Habeck got 28 percent approval, his co-chair Annalena Baerbock got 22 percent.
For the “Politbarometer” the research group Wahlen on behalf of the ZDF interviewed 1262 randomly selected voters from Tuesday to Thursday of this week.
The statistical margin of error was given as plus / minus two to three percentage points.