It was one of the toughest crowds Germany’s finance minister Christian Lindner had ever faced: a sea of livid farmers drowning him out with vuvuzelas, whistles, boos and cries of “get lost”.
But Lindner’s reception at a protest in Berlin against cuts to agricultural subsidies was no anomaly. It was just the latest manifestation of growing popular anger with a government that appears to be lurching from crisis to crisis — and emerging ever more battered from each.
The three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition — the Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and liberals — have suffered a steep slump in popularity. Their combined share of the vote is now less than a third, compared with 52 per cent at the last elections in September 2021.
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