To be fair, he and his government have been working tirelessly for this. They've been

• lying about the necessity of new debt (then immediately taking up unprecedented amounts of it)
• promising reforms that never came
• calling the working part of the population lazy bums, all the while preparing tax breaks that will disproportionally benefit large companies and the top 10%
• fucking up and slowing down the transition towards renewables amid yet another fossil fuel energy crisis
• copying the disgusting populism of the far right all the while claiming to be trying to contain them (instead of doing the obvious and initiating a constitutional review of the party by the Supreme Court)

What annoys me more than the man himself is the fact that everyone paying even a modicum of attention could have seen this coming from a mile away. And they voted for his party anyway.

 ​  MRZ
 L C K
🥚🥚

He was the third choice even in his own party and I understand why.

He was on his lowest after the vote and now is even lower. :D Anyway the poeple will vote him again because he is in CDU.

I would like to point out that Chancellor Merz has not become any more unpopular with me personally. That's simply not possible.

FTZNFRTZ LCK 🥚

Has never been popular

Checks out. No matter the political ideology, I can't imagine why anyone would like Merz.

Hm.. who would have thought that insulting 99% of the population as lazy makes you unpopular? Hmm...

Afd a notch from being the 1st party. Maybe I should consider saving money to move out of Germany in a few years..

There’s a problem with the Staatbild.

In reality both covernment parties combined have lost only around 5% in polls.

Because voters are totally brain-dead. They will cry and complain, then vote for them again anyway, repeat again and again and again... ad infinitum, ad nauseam.

There are no other comparably popular leader in the midst of rising far-right who could counter them.

Ah sheet, here we go again.