A significant drop in the members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany during the time of Chancellor Schultz

– International News – Tasnim News According to the German publication “Die Site”, about 25 years ago the Social Democratic Party in Germany still had about 750,000 members. But now the number of members of this party is less than half of this number. The decline also continues under Chancellor Olaf Schultz.

The Social Democratic Party of Germany lost almost 15,000 members last year, a decline of 3.9 percent. The spokesperson of the Social Democratic Party told the German news agency that at the end of 2023, Olaf Schultz’s party had about 365,190 members, thus confirming the report of the Berliner Tagzspiegel newspaper. The year before that, the party had 379,861 members.

The spokesman also said that 9,584 people joined the party last year – five per cent more than in 2022. So the decline in membership was mainly due to resignations and deaths. The spokesperson of the Social Democratic Party also said that the percentage of female members has increased in recent years and reached 33.56 percent at the end of 2022. Accordingly, twelve percent of the members of this party are currently under 35 years old. Most members are aged 60 and over – this group makes up around 58%.

The Social Democratic Party lost more members in one year than in 2019, according to the report. However, the party has seen a decline in membership for years: since the federal election at the end of 2021, the Social Democrats have lost around 28,500 members. Support for the so-called traffic light coalition is still collapsing. In a recent poll conducted by the Forsa Institute, the Social Democratic Party lost one point and is now at 13%, which is the worst number in these polls in almost four years.

The results of this poll It shows that if the elections are held on Sunday this week, the Liberal Democratic Party in the coalition government should be worried about returning to the parliament and will get 4% of the votes like last week. Greens in the coalition government are stable at 14%. The extreme Alternative for Germany party also won 22% of the votes. According to this survey, 55% of the participants in this survey called farmers’ protests the most important issue of the week. According to another survey by Forsa Institute, farmers’ concerns have a lot of sympathy among citizens. 66 percent believe that the government should abandon the planned abolition of agricultural diesel subsidies.

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