Overview
- Infratest Dimap’s BerlinTrend for rbb24 Abendschau and rbb 88.8 finds 66% rate Kai Wegner’s crisis performance as less than good or poor.
- 61% of respondents say the Berlin mayor’s credibility has been harmed following the multi-day outage in southwest Berlin.
- Only about a quarter believe his conduct warrants resignation, with 68% rejecting a call for him to step down over the incident.
- Wegner acknowledged playing tennis for an hour on day one of the blackout, and his visit to a shelter drew further criticism after images of a 97-year-old on a field bed circulated.
- Perceptions of other officials were mixed, with Franziska Giffey earning 38% good or very good ratings as commentary casts the CDU’s path to the election in nine months as politically difficult.