ARD Germany trend: Approval for Scholz and the traffic light government is decreasing

Approval for the work of Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and the federal government as a whole has fallen significantly.

According to the ARD "Germany trend" published on Thursday, the approval rating for Scholz fell by twelve points to just 39 percent.

On the other hand, 57 percent said they were less or not at all satisfied.

The federal government as a whole still achieved an approval rating of 41 percent (minus six points).

Supporters of the SPD (70 percent) and the Greens (69 percent) are particularly satisfied, while criticism outweighs the criticism of the co-governing FDP (43 to 54 percent).

There is a majority of clear dissatisfaction in the ranks of the Union and AfD.

When assessing the coalition partners, the Greens do best with 43 percent approval.

The SPD follows with 37 percent, ahead of the FDP with 36 percent.

The majority of respondents are particularly satisfied with the work of Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Economics Minister Robert Habeck (56 percent each).

Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) comes to 44 percent, Finance Minister Christian Lindner to 41 percent.

Only then does CDU leader Friedrich Merz follow with 33 percent.

Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) is 20 percent behind the FDP defense politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann with 25 percent.

AfD faction leader Tino Chrupalla reached ten percent, left leader Janine Wissler eight percent.

In the Sunday question, the Union improved slightly to 26 percent (plus one).

The SPD remains at 24 percent ahead of the Greens at 18 percent (minus one).

The AfD continues to achieve eleven percent, the FDP nine percent.

The left comes to only three percent (minus one).

Nine percent is predicted for other parties.

For the “Germany trend”, the Infratest dimap institute surveyed 1,344 eligible voters from Monday to Wednesday.

The error rate was given as two to three percentage points.

"Politbarometer" sees 49 percent satisfaction with Scholz

The ZDF "political barometer" from Friday also sees a lot of approval for the Greens.

The party gained two percentage points in the Sunday question and came to 21 percent.

In addition, according to the "Politbarometer", the Greens are three of the four most popular politicians: Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is number one on the popular list, followed by Economics Minister Robert Habeck, Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir.

Overall, there was little movement in the political mood.

The SPD remains the strongest party in the poll with 25 percent;

compared to the last "Politbarometer" it lost two points.

It is followed by the CDU/CSU with 23 percent (minus one), the Greens with 21 percent (plus two), the FDP with nine percent (plus one), the AfD with eleven percent (unchanged) and the Left with four percent (unchanged).

In the Ukraine crisis, 70 percent of those surveyed said that Foreign Minister Baerbock had done a good job – only 24 percent rated it as bad.

66 percent are satisfied with the work of Economics Minister Habeck (dissatisfied: 19 percent).

The two are clearly more convincing than Chancellor Scholz, who, after 72 percent in March, now only 49 percent attest to good work in the Ukraine crisis.

43 percent give him a bad reference.

The Mannheim research group Wahlen interviewed 1170 randomly selected voters by telephone for the representative survey in the period from April 26th to 28th.

The possible error rate is between two and three percent.