Support for the ruling SPD party in Germany has weakened significantly ahead of the June elections.
Support for the SPD is at an all-time low and unrest is growing within the party. Former foreign minister and vice-chancellor Joschka Fischer (Greens), 75, told the Ausburger Allgemeine that the main blame for the current situation, in which Germany is facing problems on various levels, lies with SPD policy. Chancellor Olaf Scholz bears the main responsibility for the crisis in the traffic light coalition.
The crisis in the current government is largely a chancellor’s crisis, we have to be very sober about it.
Four months ahead of the European elections, the latest polls put the SPD at just 13 per cent nationwide – half as much as in the 2021 federal election with its main candidate Scholz (25.7 per cent). The SPD fears a crushing defeat in the elections.
We are in a situation where we have a huge problem, both economically, technologically and in terms of security policy. Cheap Russian gas is gone and is not coming back – despite Sahra Wagenknecht. A major Chinese export market has gone from an opportunity to a threat. We don’t know if US security guarantee in NATO will survive the presidential election. But the likelihood that it will not survive it is high.
Therefore, voters to turn out for the June elections, which will take place in nine federal states, including all the eastern states except Berlin. The performance of parties in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg should give an indication of their prospects in the state elections in September.
Jobs with lowest pay levels
In Germany, the Federal Statistical Office, in response to a request from the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) group in the Bundestag, published the top of the lowest-paid jobs.
Cleaning is the lowest paid: the average gross salary for a full-time job is €2,493. In second place are agricultural occupations with an average salary of €2,531 among the occupational groups that earn the least. The third place is held by professions in tourism, hospitality or catering. The average salary here is 2,634 euros per month.
BSW head Sarah Wagenknecht addressed the federal government and Labour Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD), saying that Germany “needs higher wages and more collective bargaining.”
Wage levels in Germany are too low. If people who play a key role in keeping this country alive earn more than €1,000 a month less than the average wage, it has nothing to do with honest work.
Next come horticulture and floristry with 2672 euros, food production with 2724 euros and textile and leather professions with 2724 euros. Rounding out the top 10 Neagtiv occupations are salespersons at 2845 euros, finishing work at 2845 euros, plastics and woodworking at 2943 euros and vehicle drivers at 2999 euros.
