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Majority of Germans unhappy with Merz’s leadership, poll shows

Sunday, 27 July 2025 7:22 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 27 July 2025 7:22 AM ]

Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz attends a news conference at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on May 28, 2025. (Photo by AP)

A new poll has shown that the majority of the German people are unhappy with their chancellor’s job performance.

Fifty-six percent of the participants in a latest poll disapprove of the work of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, media reported on Sunday, adding that less than a third of respondents were happy with the performance of the governing coalition led by him.

The latest survey conducted by the INSA institute at the request of Bild tabloid indicates that the leadership of Merz has suffered a major blow over the past month in terms of public support for his coalition government.

The poll found that in early June, 36 percent of Germans were satisfied, while 44 percent were unsatisfied with Merz’s performance. Now, almost 60 percent of Germans are unsatisfied with the work being done by the coalition government led by Merz, up from the 44 percent discontented in early June.

The data suggests Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), no longer have voters’ support to form a majority government if elections were held this weekend.

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According to the INSA poll, the CDU has only 27 percent of the votes, while the SPD has just 15 percent.

On the other side of the political spectrum, the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) is polling just three percentage points behind the CDU, the poll suggested.

Analysts attribute Merz’s failure to achieve public satisfaction to his unclear foreign policy stance on Russia, funneling German taxpayers’ money to supply weapons for Ukraine.

Merz has promised to provide €5 billion ($5.6 billion) to finance weapons manufacturing in Ukraine to supply Kiev forces with long-range missiles to attack sensitive targets deep inside Russia.

He had previously promised Ukraine to supply the Kiev forces with long-range Taurus missiles capable of striking Moscow.

The German chancellor claimed earlier this month that all diplomatic channels responsible for finding a peaceful solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict had been “exhausted.”

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Merz’s policy stance has prompted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to say European leaders are dragging the continent toward war with Russia, choosing war instead of diplomacy.

Since Russia launched its special operations in Ukraine in February 2022, the United States and its Western allies have been supplying Kiev with an unchecked supply of weapons amounting to tens and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of arms, munitions and military equipment.

The German government has long been pressured by its Western allies, particularly the United States, to supply more weapons and ammunition to the Kiev forces to fight the Russian troops and strike targets deep inside Russia’s territory.

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