German voters are extremely dissatisfied with the work of the government, according to a July survey by ARD-DeutschlandTREND.
The most dissatisfied with the government are voters of the right-wing AfD, with exactly 0 percent saying they are satisfied with the government’s work, followed by voters of the left-wing BSW party with just a 3 percent satisfaction rate.
The most content are the Social Democrats and the Greens, but they are also extremely divided on the issue, with only half the supporters of both parties saying they were pleased with the current direction the government is taking the country.
No German voters said they were “completely satisfied” with their government.
Overall dissatisfaction with government policies rose to 81 percent, with 38 percent saying they were “not at all satisfied.”
The country is currently governed by the so-called traffic-light coalition of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD), the Free Democrats (FDP) and the Greens.
Politicians’ individual results also paint an interesting picture. Germans are most satisfied with Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (53 percent) while only 21 percent are satisfied with Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Interestingly, Sarah Wagenknecht, who founded the leftist BSW party just over a year ago, is already more popular than the chancellor with 23 percent of Germans satisfied with the star of the German left. The other anti-establishment party, the right-wing AfD leader Alice Weidel, has 20 percent of Germans satisfied with her, just behind Scholz.
