Minister more popular than Scholz
Where Pistorius scores with the Germans
February 27, 2024, 12:07 a.m
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After just a year in office, Defense Minister Pistorius is highly regarded by Germans. As a survey for “Stern” shows, the majority of Germans consider him competent and trustworthy. In one area in particular, he is far ahead of his party colleague Scholz.
Almost half of Germans are of the opinion that Boris Pistorius would be a better chancellor than Olaf Scholz. The characteristics profile of the magazine “Stern”, which Forsa collects at irregular intervals for top politicians, now shows what exactly the defense minister’s strengths are.
62 percent of Germans say that he speaks clearly, 56 percent think he is competent and 51 percent think he is trustworthy. The last value is an unusually high result given the general crisis of confidence.
The SPD politician Pistorius achieved the greatest advantage over his party colleague Scholz when it came to the criterion of leadership. 50 percent of those surveyed attributed this quality to him – 40 percent more than the Chancellor. The profile for Scholz was last queried in December. 49 percent of Germans also find the Defense Minister likeable.
Pistorius achieved the lowest level of agreement on the point “knows what moves people”. Only 36 percent trust him to do that. This is still a good value, but it shows that the traffic light coalition would still have acceptance problems even after a change in personnel.
Union supporters are also impressed by Pistorius
The overall good ratings for Defense Minister Pistorius are also due to the fact that he enjoys a high reputation not only among supporters of the traffic light parties, but also among CDU and CSU voters. 73 percent of Union supporters say that Pistorius is competent. That’s even six percentage points more than the voters of his own party. The SPD politician also achieved a score of more than 50 percent in one category among AfD supporters: 57 percent of them think that Pistorius speaks understandably.
In a Forsa survey commissioned by ntv/RTL in the middle of the month, 48 percent of those surveyed said that they would rather have Pistorius than Scholz as Chancellor. This was 45 percent of SPD voters.