Skip to content

Event

16–20 September

Friedrich Merz faces potential resignation after elections in Germany

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz may lose his position following elections in two federal states scheduled for September 20. The decline in Merz's and his party's ratings has sparked discussions about possible leadership changes within the party.

In brief

  • Merz's rating has dropped to 14%
  • Support for CDU/CSU has fallen to 18%
Covered by 5 of 6 media groups
  • Budget 1 source
  • Public money 1 source
  • Media business 5 sources
  • Big capital 1 source
  • Readers and grants not in the collected reports
  • Undisclosed 1 source

No newsrooms from these groups in the collected reports: readers and grants.

What are media groups?

Share of reports by media group
GroupShareCount
Media business
  • Newsroom 8
67%8 items
Budget
  • Newsroom 1
9%1 item
Public money
  • Newsroom 1
8%1 item
Big capital
  • Newsroom 1
8%1 item
Undisclosed
  • Newsroom 1
8%1 item

How we count media groups — Methodology

Report an error

Comments

Loading comments…

Allow visit statistics? PostHog keeps them (EU servers) under a random browser id — no name, no account; kept for 12 months. Vercel Speed Insights measures page speed, with no id. The site works the same without. Details