the Federal Finance Minister, Olaf Scholz, is favoured according to a survey by the voters as a candidate for Chancellor of the SPD. In the survey of Kantar-Institute for the Funke media group, 42 percent of all participants were of the view that Scholz was the most appropriate possible candidate of the party for the Chancellery.
Scholz was considerably ahead of other leading SPD politicians in the Federal government. The Federal Minister of labour, Hubertus Heil, only 19 percent approval, Federal Minister for family Affairs Franziska Giffey to 16 percent. However, represented in the survey, 40 percent of the opinion, Scholz was unsuitable for the office of the Federal Chancellor. Approximately 17 percent did not provide any information to Scholz or were undecided.
The SPD Federal Chairman, Saskia esque and Norbert Walter-Borjans, could imagine just one-tenth of the respondents as candidate for Chancellor. More than half described both esque, as well as Walter-Borjans, as unsuitable for the post at the top of the Federal government.
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Among the supporters of the SPD, 72 percent of languages in the survey for Scholz as a candidate for Chancellor. In Giffey and healing, it was 34 percent. Supporters of other parties see therefore also in Scholz those social Democrats that is likely to make the Chancellor candidacy.
The best of the Federal Minister of Finance, in the case of the FDP in the supporters section. 78 percent of them declared that Scholz brought under the social Democrats, the best conditions for application, the ums Chancellery. The were even higher than among SPD supporters. For the survey respondents Kantar between the 21. 22. July, a total of 1036 a representative sample of citizens in the whole of Germany.
The discussion of the Chancellor candidate of the SPD had increased in recent times. Representatives of the right party wing were the last in the last week, for Scholz, as a candidate for Chancellor.
Date Of Update: 28 July 2020, 01:20
