{"id":624166,"date":"2025-12-10T12:19:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624166\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T12:19:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:19:17","slug":"poll-shows-german-chancellor-merzs-coalition-government-losing-voter-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624166\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll shows German Chancellor Merz&#8217;s coalition government losing voter confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BERLIN<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Confidence in all major political figures of Chancellor Friedrich Merz&#8217;s coalition government has declined this month, a new poll revealed Wednesday, marking a significant erosion of support after seven months in office.<\/p>\n<p>Trust in conservative leader Merz fell to 32% in December\u2014down six percentage points from 38% when his conservative-left coalition government took office in May 2025\u2014according to the representative poll conducted by the Forsa research institute.<\/p>\n<p>Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil of the Social Democrats (SPD) also saw his confidence rating drop from 41% in May to a 36% in the December poll. Even Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, long regarded as Germany&#8217;s most popular politician, experienced a decline. His trust rating fell by five percentage points to 57% compared to May 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition government has faced mounting internal tensions in recent months. Merz&#8217;s conservative CDU\/CSU alliance and coalition partner SPD have clashed over migration policy, military service reform, pension reforms, and budget priorities\u2014disputes that have raised questions among voters about the government&#8217;s ability to govern effectively.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition&#8217;s declining approval was also reflected in party support polling. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has surged to 26% in the latest Forsa poll\u2014overtaking all other parties to become Germany&#8217;s strongest political force.<\/p>\n<p>Merz&#8217;s conservatives (CDU\/CSU), who won February&#8217;s snap election with 28.5%, have fallen to 24%\u2014down one percentage point from the previous week. The Social Democrats dropped to 14%, well below their 16.4% election performance. The Greens registered 12% support, while the socialist Left Party stood at 11%.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Merz&#8217;s coalition faces a critical political test in 2026 with state parliamentary elections scheduled in five federal states. Baden-Wurttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate vote in March, followed by Saxony-Anhalt in June, and Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in September.<\/p>\n<p>                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/p\/subscription\/1001\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:12px; color:#444; text-decoration:none;\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                    Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. <b style=\"color:#1897F7\">Please contact us for subscription options.<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\n                                <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN\u00a0 Confidence in all major political figures of Chancellor Friedrich Merz&#8217;s coalition government has declined this month, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[8385,5340,2000,299,1945,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-624166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-afd","9":"tag-anadolu-ajansi","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-friedrich-merz","13":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115695239954960921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}