Will he be the CDU’s candidate for chancellor? Why NRW boss Hendrik Wüst Friedrich Merz can be very dangerous. Only 23 percent of those surveyed in a Forsa survey for RTL/ntv said they wanted to vote for Merz in a direct election.
Merz is ahead of Scholz in the survey - but is far behind Pistorius on one point “Especially those eligible voters who see themselves in the right-wing political spectrum would choose Merz,” Forsa boss Manfred Güllner said.