Most Germans want new elections
According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency and quoted by the German newspaper “Stuttgarter Nakhreshten”, the results A survey commissioned by ZDF Germany shows that half of the Germans are in favor of holding new elections in Germany. According to this survey, about half of the German people who are eligible to vote are giving, they are in favor of the new federal elections in Germany. Accordingly, 51 percent of those surveyed said they thought an early federal election would be good. A total of 43 percent were against holding early federal elections. The rest answered this question with I don’t know.
The results of this survey showed that 71% of the surveyed people said that they are not satisfied with the work of the government, in May 61% had this opinion. However, a quarter of poll participants gave the coalition a good rating (May: 33 percent), the rest answered “don’t know”. It was conducted between 1334 people over the phone and online.
The disgraceful defeat of the parties of the German coalition government led by “Olaf Schultz” in the European parliamentary elections increased the pressure on the German Prime Minister to step down and led to the intensification of conflicts. It has become a coalition government.
On the other hand, the Union of United Christian Parties has demanded the resignation of Olaf Schultz after the European elections. But Christian Lindner, the German Finance Minister from the Liberal Democratic Party, does not see any reason for this, but demands consequences for this poor result. has rejected early elections. Stephen Hebstreit, the government spokesman in Berlin, said: “The date of the election is planned for the fall of next year, and we intend to implement it in this way. Never, not even for a moment, was the idea that new elections could be started in Germany now.
He emphasized: The traffic light coalition is a four-year project. Hebstreit said: At the end of four years, the voters will speak again and this is how the politics will be designed. The government should stick to itself.
After the scandalous defeat of the German government parties in the parliamentary elections, especially for the Social Democratic Party and the Greens, requests from the Union of Christian United Parties, among others, for Olaf Schultz’s vote of confidence in the parliament and the holding of elections A new one was proposed for the Bundestag. Markus Söder, the leader of the Christian Social Party, called on Schultz to resign, claiming that the traffic light government no longer has legitimacy among the people. He spoke of the “complete collapse” and the complete loss of trust in the government. While admitting the bad results in the European Parliament elections, the German Prime Minister asked the parties of the coalition government to improve the situation. strengthen cooperation until the German parliamentary election.
In the European elections on Sunday, all parties of the traffic light coalition faced a heavy loss of votes. The Greens lost the most compared to the previous election in 2019. The Social Democratic Party also achieved its worst electoral result in a European election, and the Liberal Democratic Party also fell from the level of popularity it gained in the 2021 federal election.
Due to the poor results of the European elections, Requests for holding new elections and a vote of confidence in the Federal Chancellor of Germany have been raised especially by the opposition in this country.
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