Inflation, Pensions, and Housing Top Germans' Concerns Ahead of Elections – Survey
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Germans named inflation, pensions and affordable housing as the most pressing issues for the new federal government, which will be formed after the February elections to the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, according to a survey conducted by the INSA institute for the Bild newspaper.
According to 56% of Germans, the most important problem that the new government must deal with is inflation. In December of this year, it reached 2.2%. As the publication notes, inflation is not growing now as quickly as it did, for example, in 2022, but the population is still concerned about rising prices.
More than half of those surveyed (54%) are worried about the future of their pensions: while the Social Democrats, to which current Chancellor Olaf Scholz belongs, are calling for a pension of 48% of wages to be established by law, the opposition and most popular CDU/CSU bloc is against such a step.
Housing is in third place on the list of problems that the new government must solve, 51% of those surveyed want the new authorities to build more affordable housing, the demand for which, especially in large cities, is huge.
Germans also want the new government to stimulate economic growth, provide stable energy supplies and control migration, according to the survey.
