The Green Party’s popularity among voters has fallen to its lowest level in five years as Germany’s coalition government struggles with a big budget gap – Reuters.
The Greens, represented by Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, lost one percentage point from the previous week, gaining 12% in a poll asking voters how they would vote in an early election.
A “traffic-light coalition” is trying to close a €60 billion budget gap after a court blocked the transfer of unused pandemic funds to green initiatives and industry support.
But while support for the Greens fell, the Social Democrats (SPD) and Free Democrats (FDP) remained flat at 16% and 6% respectively.
At the moment it does not look like the SPD or the Greens will be able to lead the government after the 2025 general election, Hermann Binkert, INSA’s head, stated.
The conservative opposition CDU/CSU remains the strongest performer in the poll with an unchanged 30 per cent, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party gained one percentage point to 22 per cent.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday pledged to finalise the 2024 budget by the end of this year.
