Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) – Almost 100 days after the first black-green government took office in North Rhine-Westphalia, the majority of citizens are dissatisfied with the work of the coalition. If elected on Sunday, the alliance could still maintain the majority. This is the result of the latest “NRW Check” by the opinion research institute Forsa for the NRW daily newspapers.
As the client reported on Friday in Düsseldorf, 54 percent of the more than 1,500 representative respondents are dissatisfied with the current performance of the coalition. Only 34 percent said they were satisfied. The values ????of the black-yellow predecessor coalition were similar shortly before the state elections in May.
Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) received a slightly better personal rating: satisfaction (43 percent) and dissatisfaction (44 percent) are balanced here. The CDU politician also achieved almost the same values ??as just before the election.
92 percent of those surveyed know the CDU state leader. With this level of awareness, he is “clearly the face of the state government,” the NRW newspapers sum up. The Prime Minister is 37 points ahead of his deputy, Economics Minister Mona Neubaur (Greens).
If the state parliament were re-elected now, the CDU would get 36 percent of the votes (state election 2022: 35.7 percent). The Greens could increase from 18.2 percent back then to 20 percent now.
The SPD would undercut its worst state election result in North Rhine-Westphalia – with 26.7 percent most recently – and plummet to just 21 percent. The FDP would also remain below its election result (5.9 percent) with 5 percent. The AfD would increase significantly, which after 5.4 percent in the election would now receive 9 percent. The left would again fail at the five percent hurdle with 3 percent.
The biggest problems in NRW named by those surveyed were inflation and price increases (40 percent) and the threat to the energy supply (30 percent). 70 percent expect prices to continue to rise. 58 percent associate this with the concern that their own household could get into financial difficulties because of the high energy costs. More than 80 percent of those surveyed expressed the impression that the coalition in Düsseldorf was not doing enough to cushion the consequences of price developments in the energy sector for the population.
