RTL / ntv trend barometer: Merkel remains the most popular politician ahead of Scholz

RTL / ntv trend barometer
Merkel remains the most popular politician ahead of Scholz

While there is no movement among the parties, the weeks after the general election swirled up the political ranking. At the end of her term of office, the outgoing Chancellor once again clearly gained in reputation. But the newcomers of the month are Klingbeil and Lauterbach.

If everything goes according to plan, Angela Merkel will move out of the Chancellery next week and Olaf Scholz will move in. At the end of her term of office, the CDU politician is once again enjoying great popularity. In the Forsa political ranking, Merkel gained 5 points and with 65 points was clearly ahead of Scholz, who fell by 3 points with 50 points.

The newcomer of the month is the designated SPD co-chairman Lars Klingbeil, who is credited with a large share in the SPD election victory. With a plus of 8 points, he shoots up to 6th place. This makes the incumbent SPD general secretary suddenly the third most popular SPD politician, after his predecessor Norbert Walter-Borjans and the remaining co-chairwoman Saskia Esken (with 23 points in 17th place) were barely able to convince in terms of public popularity.

The second most popular social democrat in the country is Karl Lauterbach. The health politician has gained seven points and is now level with the Greens chairman and upcoming climate protection minister Robert Habeck in third place. The news is certainly not inconvenient for Lauterbach, as he is being traded for the post of Federal Minister of Health. The SPD wants to make its departmental allocations public at the beginning of next week. The most popular union representative is CSU boss Markus Söder with 46 points. Only foreign politician Norbert Röttgen, who wants to become CDU boss, also comes over the 40-point threshold.

Pandemic concern is top priority

Röttgen’s competitor for the CDU chairmanship, Helge Braun, has 39 points. Friedrich Merz is in 13th place with just 34 points. The CDU wants its members to vote on the next chairman. Among the Union supporters, Röttgen and Merz are tied with 55 points, while Helge Braun is just behind with 53. With Volker Wissing and Marco Buschmann, the FDP now has a total of three representatives in the top 15.

The question of the chancellor’s preference also hardly helps the CDU members in their decision-making. In direct comparison with Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz comes to 19 percent and Norbert Röttgen to 18 percent, while 45 percent of those surveyed would prefer the SPD politician as Chancellor. Helge Braun, who recently entered the race for the top of the CDU, got 11 percent of the vote compared to Scholz and Scholz 50 percent.

In the case of the parties, however, nothing has happened. With 24 percent support, the SPD is another 2 percentage points ahead of the Union. The Greens ranked third with 17 percent of those surveyed, followed by the FDP with 12 percent. The AfD is 10 percent, the Left is 5. 81 percent of the respondents named the corona pandemic as the most important political issue. Behind them are the ongoing formation of a government with 35 percent, the issues of climate and the environment with 9 percent as well as the refugee crisis in Belarus and price increases with 8 percent each.

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