According to the Political Barometer survey, 58% of respondents criticized the federal government for doing too little to "relieve the burden on citizens" amid hiking prices. Another 30% approved of the government's policies in response to the crisis, while 5% indicated that the existing support measures are even excessive.
An overwhelming majority of the supporters of the right-wing Alternative for Germany party (80%) and The Left (71%) disapproved of the government's lack of relief measures, and the supporters of the Free Democratic Party (60%), CDU/CSU and Alliance 90/The Greens (both 53%) and the Social Democratic Party (52%) were of the same opinion.
At the same time, 40% were skeptical of their own economic situation, expecting it to deteriorate in a year. A total of 49% of those surveyed expressed the view that their economic standing will remain unchanged and the minority of 10% think that they will be better off in a year.
ZDF surveyed 1,400 people of the voting age from August 9-11. The margin of error does not exceed 2-3 percentage points.