2024-07-16 07:45:26
According to polls, the Union is clearly the strongest force in Germany. However, from the CSU leader’s point of view, the potential is far from exhausted. He expects protest voters to return.
According to CSU leader Markus Söder, the Union can hope for many voters to switch from the AfD in the next federal election. “The moment a conceivable federal election campaign takes place and a change in government is also conceivable, the Union will be able to make significant gains again,” said the Bavarian Prime Minister in a summer interview on the ZDF program “Berlin direct” in Inning am Ammersee.
Söder specifically mentioned frustrated voters who switched to the AfD in protest against the policies of the current federal government made up of the SPD, Greens and FDP, but who did not support the party’s fundamental goals. “And at the moment when a change of government is imminent, I believe that a large proportion will also be able to bind themselves, especially if the concepts for this are developed.”
It is therefore his “urgent recommendation” for the Union to develop clear concepts in migration policy and economic policy. “We will do that,” he said. “Then I think we will ultimately be able to lead Germany well into the future.”
In surveys, the CDU/CSU is currently at 30 to 32 percent. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s SPD is at 14 to 15 percent. The Greens are at 11 to 13 percent, the FDP at 4 to 5. The AfD is between 16 and 18 percent, the BSW at 7 to 9, and the Left at 2 to 3 percent.
Election polls are generally always subject to uncertainty. Among other things, declining party ties and increasingly short-term voting decisions make it more difficult for opinion research institutes to weight the data collected. In principle, polls only reflect the opinion at the time of the survey and are not predictions of the election outcome.