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10/30/06

Bloomberg.com: Little Faith in Merkel Coalition to Solve Problems, Poll Shows - by Rainer Buergin


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Little Faith in Merkel Coalition to Solve Problems, Poll Shows - by Rainer Buergin

Just three in every 10 German voters says Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government will manage to solve the country's biggest problems, including a revamp of its ailing health-care and social-welfare systems, a poll showed. Seventy-two percent of respondents to a poll by Forschungsgruppe Wahlen for ZDF television today said the government is incapable of solving major problems in general, while 88 percent said health-care changes agreed Oct. 5 won't stand the test of time. Seventy-three percent said new rules for the long-term jobless, agreed under former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, have not been successful, the poll showed.

Merkel doesn't have the full support of her Christian Democratic Union, 69 percent of respondents said, up from 65 percent in August. That's more than double the 31 percent who said Social Democratic Party chairman Kurt Beck doesn't enjoy his party's full backing, 10 percentage points less than in August.

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