German Chancellor Olaf Scholz can decide in 2024 through a financial scandal related to Wirecard. The INSA Institute has announced a fall in support of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the low popularity of the chancellor.
According to the survey, during 2023 the SPD support fell from 20% to 15%, but only one in five Germans evaluated the Chancellor's work positively. In this regard, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica writes that Scholt can decide this year.
The potential successor to Scholz is discussing Germany's defense Minister Boris Pistorius, who recently headed the rating of the most popular German politicians.
The resignation may be a Wirecard scandal, which happened in 2020, when Scholtz was headed by the Ministry of Economy and was responsible for the financial regulator. At that time, the financial regulator did not notice the fraudulent scheme that became the largest in Germany's history.
Journalists point out that the issue of the resignation of Scholz is the subject of discussion, and some analysts doubt its reality. All this happens against the background of exacerbation of the political situation, in particular, the statement of support to Ukraine and the proposal of Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban to leave the EU meeting during the vote.
