Record Result Stuns Germany

Unpopular Chancellor under huge pressure.

Germany, like many other countries, is struggling right now.

In 2025 the country saw unemployment rise to a 12-year high.

Close to 3 million people were unemployed, the highest number since 2013.

There may be even worse to come. An industrial massacre is continuing, with huge numbers of jobs going.

Just one example: Volkswagen have announced plans to cut an eye-watering 50,000 jobs by 2030.

Overseeing this downward spiral for Germany has been a coalition of the CDU/CSU Conservatives governing with the left-wing Social Democrats.

So far, the verdict on both in Government together has been brutal.

Oblivion is a word often now associated with the current fortunes of the Social Democrats, who have been consistently obliterated at recent votes.

It doesn’t get much better for Friedrich Merz, the Conservative Leader and German Chancellor.

One recent piece of research calculating the popularity of premiers across 24 different democracies found Merz to be the least popular of all.

76% of Germans aren’t happy with his performance and the Chancellor now has the backing of only 19%.

This coalition Government has now sunk to just 15% support in the country, with 85% now dissatisfied. It doesn’t get much more dire than that.

The end result to all of this is a record number just revealed that will terrify the German Government.