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Almost two-thirds of Germans say in a new poll that they want a new government. The poll comes a day after another poll showed widespread dissatisfaction among voters with Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government. In a poll conducted by the NSA for Bild, 64 percent of respondents say it would be good for Germany with a different government, while only 22 percent support the coalition between the SPD, the Greens and the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP). On Friday, an opinion poll conducted by Forschungsgruppe Wahlen on the ZDF television channel showed that 51 percent are dissatisfied with the government and that 58 percent believe it has done a bad job. Recent polls have shown that Scholz and his Social Democratic Party (SPD) are losing more and more ground to the radical Alternative for Germany (AfD). In Bild’s poll, the SPD gets 18 percent of the vote, two percentage points less than a week ago. The AfD gets 21 percent. The conservative Christian Democrats CDU/CSU get 27 percent. The Greens get 14 percent, while the FDP gets eight percent and the left party Die Linke gets five percent. The next election in Germany is in 2025. /ritzau/DPA/