np Stuttgart 21

[Otto]

Speaking about "the Chancellor worried about re-election" it seems to
me that there are too many cases where the right-center governments in
Germany make politics against the declared will of a majority of the
population (according to all polls).

Big questions like atomic power, minimum wages, unemployment benefits,
tax reductions for the rich, but "minor" questions too like new power
plants ("Moorburg" near Hamburg, where even the Green Party betrayed
their voters), the deepening of the river Elbe which is very
controversial and our new Scottish-German head of the state David
McAllister in deep trouble, local problems like "Stuttgart 21" or the
new shopping mall in my hometown - before the local elections the
conservative candidate promised to stop it and three days after he had
won changed his mind.

In the last "If Sunday were Election Day"-polls the Greens went ahead
of  the Social Democrats, at least according to one of the research
centers ("FORSA"):

http://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/index.htm