A leading figure in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right bloc has warned of a strengthening "mood for change" in Germany, where polls show voters are losing confidence in the chancellor's party six months ahead of parliamentary elections.
"The situation is very serious. The numbers of the coronavirus epidemic are increasing and support for the Union (Angela Merkel) is decreasing," said Markus Zeder, the governor of Bavaria and a possible candidate to succeed Angela Merkel in the September 26 election.
Merkel said she will not run for a fifth term, and Zeder's opponent is Armin Laschet, the governor of North Rhine-Westphalia.
According to the survey, the result of which was published today in the weekly newspaper "Bild am Zontag" (Bild am Sonntag), now the ruling bloc is supported by 25 percent of the respondents, slightly ahead of the environmentalists of the Greens, who have the support of 23 percent of the respondents.
The center-left Social Democratic Party is third with 17 percent. The survey was conducted among 1.447 voters, and the margin of error is up to three percentage points.
Angela Merkel's ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and her Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) coalition, which won nearly 33 percent of the vote in 2017, has been hit by a scandal over alleged lawmakers profiting from the purchase of masks and public frustration over the slow pace of vaccination in Germany. .
By Friday, slightly more than 10 percent of the population had received one dose of the anti-covid vaccine, while 4,5 percent had received both doses.
The German Agency for Disease Control reported 17.176 new cases of infection and 90 deaths in one day.
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