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SPIEGEL poll: women vote for union, boy green

2020-10-08T13:50:50.614Z


In the corona crisis, the Union is still well ahead of the other parties. The SPIEGEL survey shows that the Greens are only getting closer to the CDU and CSU among younger voters.


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The women at the top of the CDU are followed by men: Armin Laschet and Friedrich Merz apply for party leadership

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Politics is still mostly made by men - in all parties, with the CDU and CSU, the gender imbalance is particularly glaring.

In the CDU only a little more than a quarter of the members are female, in the CSU there are even fewer.

And only about a fifth of the members of the Bundestag in the Union are women.

Nevertheless, the Union parties can score points with women.

In the last federal election in 2017, it was mainly the voters who saved Angela Merkel into office.

And the current SPIEGEL survey by the opinion research institute Civey also shows that the CDU and CSU are more popular among the female electorate than the male.

A year before the next election, around 38 percent of women would vote for the Union.

For men it is 32 percent.

This means that the Union would be well ahead of all other parties overall if the Germans went to the ballot box next Sunday: the CDU and CSU would have around 35 percent, the Greens (almost 19) and the SPD (around 16) follow on the squares.

In no other party are gender preferences so conspicuously distributed as in the Union, except for the AfD: The right-wing populist party is noticeably getting more support from the male electorate.

The question is whether those women who currently prefer the Union will actually become Union voters in a year's time.

Because the two politicians who are currently still giving the Union a female face, Angela Merkel and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, are withdrawing.

In all likelihood, only men will follow: Friedrich Merz, Armin Laschet and Norbert Röttgen apply for the CDU chairmanship.

At the beginning of December, the federal party conference in Stuttgart will decide on the successor to Kramp-Karrenbauer.

At least Laschet and Merz are taking on the clear goal of becoming a candidate for chancellor.

A fourth man is also involved in the K question: CSU boss Markus Söder.

The young choose green, the old conservative

As in the 2017 federal election, the Union continues to lead in all age groups.

However, it also shows that the CDU and CSU are still primarily addressing older voters.

In the age group 65+ they reach more than 44 percent.

The younger the voters, the lower the approval rate for the Union: only 26 percent of 18 to 26 year olds would put their cross on the CDU / CSU if there was a general election next Sunday.

The other way around with the Greens: The party achieved the most support among the youngest eligible voters, with around 24 percent approval it is only slightly behind the Union.

In the 65+ group - a particularly large group with, according to experience, a high voter turnout - only just under 13 percent would vote green.

The AfD convinces most people of the younger and middle generation, especially among the 40 to 49 year olds (12 percent).

Corona crisis decisive for voting decision

In the course of the Sunday question over a year from October 2019 to October 2020, it becomes apparent that the ongoing corona crisis still seems to have a decisive influence on the survey values.

On March 22, the government imposed extensive contact bans in order to get the high numbers of infections under control.

At the same time, the polls of the Union went up.

While the CDU / CSU were still at 28 percent on March 18, the values ​​rose to 39.5 percent by April 21.

All other parties lost their support for voters.

The Greens fell from 22 to 14 percent in the same period, and have now recovered.

Before the crisis, the Greens had sometimes even overtaken the Union in surveys.

The AfD has meanwhile slipped to single-digit polls.

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Source: spiegel

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