03/25/2022 09:04 (current 03/25/2022 11:00)
Confidence in Chancellor Karl Nehammer has also dropped. © APA / ROLAND SCHLAGER
According to the APA-OGM Confidence Index, confidence in our politicians has continued to decline in recent months. This is not only due to the chaos surrounding the corona holes and the surge in inflation.
Apart from federal president Alexander Van der Bellen, few people can see an increase in the APA-OGM confidence index. The new health minister Johannes Rauch (the Greens) will start work immediately with a negative confidence balance of minus 18. Wolfgang Mückstein’s predecessor was last in positive territory.
APA-OGM confidence index: bad performance for the government
In relation to these values, the head of OGM, Wolfgang Bachmayer, spoke of “low” public trust. Using the trust index, the OGM compares the balance of trust and distrust and calculates the balance. 800 representative voters from the AGM internet panel were interviewed. The fluctuation range is plus / minus 3.5 percent.
Van der Bellen and Zadic are confidently overtaking
At the top of the pyramid of confidence, with a growing lead, is Van der Bellen, the federal president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces (plus four points to the balance sheet 42). On the other hand, Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner (ÖVP) had to accept a drop of five points to the balance sheet minus 15 in the middle of the war in Ukraine.
Second behind the federal president is Justice Minister Alma Zadic (the Greens), but he must take minus seven points for a balance of 16%. Then comes the second president of the National Council, Doris Bures (SPÖ), who is three points behind the balance sheet of 15.
Foreign Minister Schallenberg saw the biggest increase
Behind them is Labor Minister Martin Kocher (ÖVP), one of the few winners to gain three points to a balance of eleven. Finance Minister Magnus Brunner (ÖVP) (plus 1 to 3) and – at a very low level – former FPÖ leader Norbert Hofer (plus 1 to minus 20) also scored. The foreign minister and former chancellor Alexander Schallenberg (ÖVP) saw the biggest growth. It went up seven points, but only to minus 23.
Chancellor Nehammer remains positive despite voter frustration
Federal Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) was able to stay close to positive (-3 to 4) despite deep voter frustration Bachmayer noted, while all other party leaders lost confidence to a similar degree and fell into the reds. SPÖ leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner has lost six confidence points and is now on the balance minus six.
The SPÖ is clearly ahead of the ÖVP in Sunday’s question
The SPÖ looks better in the polls, according to a poll published by the free heute newspaper on Friday. Consequently, the Social Democrats now have 29 percent of the Sunday issue, followed by the ÖVP with just 22, the FPÖ with 19, the Greens with eleven, NEOS with nine and the MFG with 8% of the voters (800 phone calls and online). respondents over the age of 16, the maximum fluctuation range of +/- 3.5 percent, the survey period from March 21 to 24).