Surveys are a snapshot, but trends are easy to read over time.
At the moment, the Union's corona chaos seems to be costing votes.
Berlin - The Union's polls took off in the summer of 2020.
Germany was praised for its corona management in the first wave.
Angela Merkel *, Jens Spahn and Markus Söder as leading Corona Union managers were in good shape.
But with the second wave and the significantly higher number of cases and deaths, there was also disillusionment among the people: back and forth during lockdown, tough consultations, processes that were far too slow.
While the executive power of the government was still accepted in the first corona wave, the opposition is now louder.
Mask affairs * as well as vaccination and test chaos do not seem to leave the Union and its polls without a trace.
And in the interests of the parties, of all things, before the first state elections in a week in Rhineland-Palatinate * and Baden-Württemberg *.
In a recent poll, the Union sinks below its election result from the 2017 federal election
A recent poll by the Kantar opinion research institute for
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shows: In the “Sunday trend”, the CDU * and CSU * together only reach 32 percent.
That is two percentage points less than in the previous week and at the same time the lowest value since March 2020, in principle the German start of the Corona crisis.
At that time, the party received 24 percent of the polls - as little as it has been since 2018.
And that's not all: The current value of the Union is even below its 2017 Bundestag election result, when it received 32.9 percent of the vote.
And according to the survey, many are not happy with the government work of the CDU and CSU either:
47 percent of the participants are dissatisfied, 43 percent are satisfied.
Survey in Germany: If there were parliamentary elections next Sunday - “grand coalition” without a majority?
The SPD * received 16 percent in Kantar's weekly poll and remained unchanged.
In percentage terms, the grand coalition would no longer have a majority.
The left * also remains unchanged at nine percent.
The Greens * (19 percent), the AfD * (ten percent) and the FDP * (nine percent) each gained one percentage point compared to the previous week.
Background to the survey
The polling institute Kantar asked 2,410 people between February 25 and March 3, who they would vote for if there was a general election next Sunday.
In another survey (as of March 4) by Infratest dimap, the Union also only came to 33 percent.
At INSA (as of March 2) it is 32.5 percent.
On February 15, GMS issued a survey in which the Union still achieved 37 percent, as was the case with Allensbach (as of February 25).
Results of the other major parties in the periods mentioned in surveys of various opinion institutions:
SPD between 15 and 17 percent
Greens between 17 and 20 percent
FDP between 7 and 10 percent
Left between 7 and 9 percent
AfD between 9 and 11 percent
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