"I firmly believe that the government will remain in this composition for the entire term of office. And, so that you don't have to ask further — I also firmly believe that I and the SPD will have such a strong mandate in 2025 that we will lead the next government," he said in an interview with Tagesspiegel.
Earlier, Bundestag Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki said in a podcast for the Pioneer publication that the Free Democrats (FDP) could leave the ruling coalition before the end of the year and that if the migration issue continued to be ignored, the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens are destined to "go down alone."
The government's rating this weekend reached a historic low since it came to power and is now just 29%, according to the results of a survey conducted by the INSA institute for the Bild am Sonntag publication. In June, Scholz's party came in third, behind the Christian Democrats and Alternative for Germany (AfD).
On September 1, the AfD won the election in the eastern German state of Thuringia and came in a close second in Saxony. The SPD and other coalition parties fared badly, with none of them getting out of the single digits in those states.