2024-09-16 00:16:29
The polls for the Union are climbing: In the Sunday trend, the CDU and CSU have achieved their best result in years. The traffic light coalition continues to lose.
According to a survey, the Union parties achieved their highest result in three and a half years. In the Insa Sunday trend of “Bild am Sonntag”, the values of the CDU and CSU rose by two percentage points to 33. The second strongest force is the AfD with 19 percent, the SPD lost one percentage point and is at 14 percent. The Greens are therefore unchanged at ten percent, the FDP at four percent. With a total of 28 percent, the three governing parties reached the lowest value since taking office in December 2021.
According to the Insa survey, a majority of respondents consider the likely Union candidate for chancellor, Friedrich Merz (CDU), to be more competent than Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) in eight out of ten important policy areas. For example, 40 percent consider Merz to be more competent on the issue of migration and asylum, while only 19 percent consider Scholz to be more competent. Scholz is only ahead in the survey on the issues of social affairs and climate/environmental protection.
However, most of those surveyed do not want either of them as chancellor – according to the survey, 48 percent of those surveyed do not want Merz or Scholz as head of government. 25 percent would vote for Merz as chancellor, 21 percent for Scholz.
For the survey, 1,206 people were interviewed by telephone and online between September 9 and 13. The uncertainty is +/- 2.9 percentage points.