Worse than Merkel and Laschet – more unlikable than Scholz: poll low blow for Merz. Only a tenth of young women want Merz to be their candidate for chancellor.

Despite the poor image of the traffic light coalition, 41 percent of those surveyed find the Chancellor “likeable,” while only 22 percent said the same about Merz, Forsa says. The Union's current poll figure of 30 percent is around 3 percentage points below the poll figures in March 2021, when Armin Laschet was the CDU party chairman.