Representative survey out this week indicated just 23 per cent of Germans would like Chancellor to return for a second term
A year before he faces re-election, the 66-year-old Social Democratic Party Chancellor of Germany has never been less popular: a representative survey out this week indicated just 23 per cent of Germans would like him to return for a second term.
‘We need to inject some passion’: Young Scottish independence activists think the movement has lost verveThe guru showing Alternative for Germany how to use social media to win votes and influence young people SPD backbenchers have called time on party leaders talking up its worst-ever election results. Brandenburg SPD politician Katrin Lange made headlines for suggesting the party would “benefit a lot if certain people would, as a rule, no longer appear on talk shows. It’s just unbearable.”
Even though Scholz lives in Potsdam, Brandenburg’s capital, he is considered such a political liability that he is not welcome at local election events. At a campaign rally on Thursday, he gave the coalition until next Tuesday to present “a binding proposal to stop uncontrolled influx at the borders”.
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