Insa ranking: Pistorius leads, Merz stays last – Weidel climbs to eighth place
Defence Minister Pistorius tops Insa's politician ranking for Bild. Chancellor Merz remains at the bottom, while AfD co-leader Weidel moves up from 11th to 8th place.
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Defence Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) remains Germany's most popular politician according to the latest ranking by the polling institute Insa for the newspaper Bild. He scores 5.3 points on a scale from 0 to 10 and, according to the Berliner Zeitung, has led the list for months. In second place is Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's premier Manuela Schwesig (SPD) with 4.7 points. They are followed by Cem Özdemir (Greens), North Rhine-Westphalia's premier Hendrik Wüst (CDU) and Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (CDU).
Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) is again in last place, to which he first fell in April. Second to last is Economy Minister Katherina Reiche (CDU). AfD co-leader Alice Weidel improves from 11th to 8th place. A newcomer to the ranking is Federal Labour Minister Alexander Schweitzer (SPD), who enters straight in ninth place. SPD leader and Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil ranks 18th. The report gives no details on the survey period or the number of participants.