The survey found that 32% of eligible voters believe Germany has worsened since Merz took office in May, while just 22% say the country has improved. A further 37% perceive no change at all.

  • Zacryon@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 days ago

    We “ever” had is a bit far fetched imo.

    Yes and no. This was investigated and the numbers do agree with respect to the previous two governments per four years each.

    From Bertelsmann Stiftung (German) translated via DeepL:

    With a total of 453 promises, the 2021 coalition agreement contains around 50 percent more concrete projects than the 2018 coalition agreement and almost two and a half times as many as the 2013 coalition agreement. However, in its three years in government, the traffic light coalition has only implemented just over half of these (52 percent) with 236 projects - 45 percent have been fully implemented and 7 percent partially implemented. 98 projects (22%) were still in the process of being implemented when the traffic light came to an end. Implementation had not even begun on a further 118 projects (26%).

    The traffic light system has therefore failed to meet the high standards it set itself. After the two previous governments each implemented almost 80 percent of their promises, the traffic light balance sheet is much worse, with just over half of the promises implemented. Nevertheless, in absolute figures it has even implemented slightly more projects (+7) than its predecessor government and significantly more (+88) than its predecessor government.