Even 65 percent German of citizens advocates for quick new elections after the failed three-member coalition chancellor Olaf Solac, according to the Deutschlandtrend survey conducted by the public service.
This means that the majority of citizens oppose Scholz's plan to raise the question of confidence in the Bundestag only in mid-January.
The opposition is also rooting for quick new elections, above all the Christian Democrats. Their first man and chancellor candidate Friedrich Mertz said that between the vote of confidence and the dissolution of parliament, three weeks would pass during which his party would consider finalizing some more laws together with Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats.
But the condition is quick elections, which Scholz is postponing. If he sticks to his plan, the elections could be held at the end of March - about six months before the regular ones were planned.
Mertz the next chancellor?
It is no wonder that Scholz finds it difficult because the coalition parties are in a bad position. According to Deutschlandtrend, the Social Democrats can count on only 16 percent of the vote, the Greens on 12, and the Liberals would struggle with a 5 percent census.
By the way, as many as 40 percent of those polled attribute the blame for the collapse of the coalition to the Liberals, 26 percent to the Greens, and 19 percent to the Social Democrats.
After the new elections, there is every chance that Mertz would be chancellor, since the Christian Democrats can count on 34 percent of the vote. Second place would be Alternative for Germany (18 percent), and the Sara Wagenknecht Alliance (6 percent) would probably enter the parliament.
Admittedly, the question is with whom Mertz could form a coalition, since cooperation with the right-wing AfD is ruled out, and the Liberals, even if they pass the threshold, would not be enough.
Even after those elections, there will certainly be coalition struggles and acrobatics, perhaps in order to convince the Social Democrats to once again be a junior partner in government.
The end of a difficult coalition
On Wednesday (November 6), Chancellor Scholz, after several months of tension and public disagreements, fired Finance Minister Christian Lindner, who is also the head of the Liberal Party. After that, the rest of the Liberal ministers withdrew from the Government, except for Transport Minister Volker Wissing, who left the party.
Thus ended the difficult coalition of three parties, in which the Greens, who wanted to increase expenditures for the "green transition" and the Liberals, friends of big capital and state savings, clashed from the beginning.
The majority of 59 percent of citizens think that it is good that the government is falling, while 36 percent do not think it is good.
Snap elections are extremely rare in post-war Germany. Olaf Scholz's government, all the while plagued by the war in Ukraine and inflation, is the least liked government since such measurements have existed.
