[corty]

Nope. The blip coincides with and was caused by a corruption scandal involving quite a few CDU/CSU politicians. As well as an increase in Greens' press coverage when they announced their candidates.

Both influences have subsided by now

[QuesnayJr]

This is wrong. April and May was peak anger about the coronavirus response. Around that time, the political conversations among Germans was entirely about the virus and how sick of it they were, and they were blaming the party in power. People care far more about being stuck at home for another summer than they care about corruption, or the media splash made by Baerbock. Plus, von der Leyen serves as a convenient symbol of an EU bureaucracy run as a retirement home for the incompetent and well-connected, and she's a CDU politician. Baerbock's appeal was that she would be a change from a status quo that failed.

But then since mid-May they administered 40 million doses, and everything is forgiven. Just subjectively, it went from no one I know is vaccinated, to everyone is either vaccinated or has an appointment to be vaccinated. Summer isn't canceled after all.