48 percent of Germans would prefer to forbid politicians from holding marathon meetings, as was the case with the most recent coalition committee, since the quality of the resolutions suffers under such conditions. This was the result of a Forsa survey commissioned by the magazine “Stern”. 46 percent of citizens disagree.
The majority of SPD voters apparently believe that even a tired Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is capable of making reasonable decisions. 57 percent of them are against a ban on night sittings. The supporters of the Greens, on the other hand, see things much more critically – probably also with a view to the climate decisions: 52 percent of them would like to send the politicians to bed earlier so that they don’t make sleepless decisions for the country.
At the beginning of their coalition, the traffic light parties had actually decided not to hold night meetings. In the end, however, this intention could no longer be kept. In a marathon meeting, the traffic light leaders from the SPD, Greens and FDP had agreed on simplified and accelerated planning not only for the expansion of eco-energy production, power grids and rail traffic, but also – as desired by the FDP – for the elimination of serious motorway bottlenecks .
CSU regional group chief Alexander Dobrindt made the size of the committee responsible for the lengthy deliberations. With around 17 participants, the traffic light committee is an “XXL coalition committee – too big, too slow and too tired,” said the chairman of the CSU deputies in the Bundestag.
Chancellor Scholz said about the nightly negotiations in the coalition committee: “Well, that’s part of it. And I think that’s a shared experience, where you’re close together, and you talk about it for a long time.”
The data was collected by the market and opinion research institute Forsa for the RTL Group Germany on March 30 and 31, 2023. Database: 1009 respondents. Statistical error tolerance: /- 3 percentage points
