How happy are the Germans with their government?

The AfD is benefiting from growing doubts around the functioning of democracy, as confirmed by a survey by the Meinungsforschungsinstituts infratest-dimap. Credit: Nadja Wohlleben/Getty Images
After just over four months in government, the ARD-Deutschlandtrend is showing a bitter result for Chancellor Friedrich Merz: According to surveys, only 42 percent of Germans are satisfied with the country's democracy and only one in five German citizens are happy with the federal government's work.
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