Sad birthday…
This survey comes at a bad time for Germany’s liberals. Ironically, on the 75th anniversary of its founding, the pollsters at Infratest estimate it to be a paltry four percent for the ARD “Germany trend”.
If it stays that way, Christian Lindner’s Liberals would break the five percent hurdle – and no longer be a member of the next Bundestag.
It is the horror scenario of his loyal followers that everything will turn out the way it did under Lindner’s late predecessor Guido Westerwelle after four years of the black-yellow coalition.
Back in 2013, after the Bundestag disaster, 600 FDP employees had to pack their boxes in parliament and stand in line at the door of the employment agency.
75 years after the founding party conference of the Free Democratic Party in Heppenheim, Hesse on December 11th and 12th, 1948 (first party leader: Theodor Heuss), the Liberals are in crisis.
The main reason in the eyes of many members: their participation in the unpopular traffic light coalition. Because: The vast majority of people in Germany are dissatisfied with the work of the federal government. 82 percent (and therefore six points more than in November!) expressed themselves accordingly in the “Germany trend”.
FDP rebels are therefore demanding: get out of the traffic lights. The initiators of a member survey about whether the FDP should remain in the coalition handed over more than 600 signatures for their initiative in Berlin on Thursday.
Union benefits from traffic light weakness
According to the survey, the Chancellor’s SPD party loses slightly. If there were a federal election on Sunday, 14 percent of people would choose the party (-2). The Greens would get 15 percent (+1).
The strongest force in the survey is the Union, which gained 2 points to 32 percent. The AfD is behind with 21 percent (-1). The left would only get 3 percent (-2).