Chancellor Scholz draws a positive balance after a year of traffic light coalition. Despite poor poll numbers, he rates the performance of the three governing parties as good. Together with the FDP and the Greens, he therefore wants to run again as chancellor.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to run for a second term in the next federal election. “Of course I’m going,” he told the Funke media group and the French newspaper “Ouest-France”. “I want the governing coalition to be in such good shape that it gets the mandate again.”
At the same time, Scholz drew a positive balance on the first anniversary of the traffic light coalition. He was “satisfied that we are fairly stable as a government in these turbulent times with many challenges,” he said. “Our country will probably come through the winter well. We support Ukraine so that it can resist Russian aggression. And we have given renewable energies new impetus and initiated the modernization of our economy,” said the Chancellor.
Scholz emphasized that this balance sheet was a joint effort by the three governing parties. Asked about the currently poor poll numbers, he said: “I am grateful for the level of support I have – and for the opportunity to gain more support.”
Scholz and the heads of government of the federal states meet on Thursday for their regular top-level round of federal and state governments. The meeting in the Chancellery will deal, among other things, with the consequences of the Ukraine war on Germany, and in particular with energy policy. The top group also wants to talk about EU issues. In addition, the federal government wants to report to the federal states on its considerations for a national security strategy. A press conference is planned afterwards.
Before the meeting with the chancellor, the prime ministers first consult among themselves. Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil and his colleague from North Rhine-Westphalia, Hendrik Wüst, want to comment on the topics around 2:15 p.m.
