The CSU is clearly slipping in favor of the voters.
According to a recent poll, it has achieved its worst result in two years.
Munich - From the Union's point of view, people currently do not like to look at the current survey results.
Week after week, the long-standing Chancellor's party is losing percentage points.
The lead that seemed unachievable a few months ago is a thing of the past - both with the CDU and the CSU.
The Bavarian sister party is also in a bad position.
Bavaria: CSU loses approval - Greens second strongest force before AfD
In a recent survey, the CSU has slipped to its worst result in two years. According to a survey by the Civey Institute for the
Augsburger Allgemeine
, only 34.5 percent of those questioned with CSU responded to the question: "Who would you vote if there were state elections on Sunday?" That is eight percentage points less than a month ago, writes the newspaper.
The declined approval values are meanwhile distributed among the other parties.
The Greens come in at 18.4 percent (+0.7) and are therefore the second strongest force.
The AfD reached 13.1 percent (+2.7) and improved just like the free voters (10.2 percent / + 2.3).
The SPD is almost on par with 10.1 percent with an increase of 2.5 percent compared to the previous month.
The FDP comes to 6.5 percent (+0.2), the left would clearly miss the entry into the state parliament with 2.8 percent (+0).
As at the federal level, there is also a five percent hurdle in Bavaria.
Notes on the survey
For its representative surveys, the opinion research institute Civey only counts the votes of registered and verified Internet users who have given data such as age, place of residence and gender.
The votes are weighted according to a scientific method according to the composition of Bavaria's population.
For the first question, the answers of 3001 participants from Bavaria were taken into account in the period from August 6, 2021 to August 20, 2021, for the second question, from July 23, 2021 to August 20, 2021, the answers of 5007 participants from Bavaria.
The statistical error is 3.1 percent for the first and 2.5 percent for the second question.
CSU: Söder's popularity is waning - Blume sees reasons for the CDU
The polling institute also surveyed the head of government's popularity ratings. CSU boss Markus Söder also has to lose in this area. While in July 49 percent of people in the Free State were satisfied with Söder's work, the figure is now 47.9 percent. These are the worst approval ratings for Söder since March. The proportion of those who are dissatisfied with the Prime Minister rose significantly to 42.7 percent - an increase of five percentage points. The rest are undecided.
According to Secretary General Markus Blume, the reason why the CSU apparently has problems with voters at the moment is also due to the CDU's demeanor - with which the Franz-Josef-Strauss-Haus is anything but completely satisfied. “These are snapshots. The current values are a consequence of the
national trend
, ”he told the
Augsburger Allgemeine
and called for the polls not to be overestimated. “If the CDU is just over 20 percent nationwide, the gap to the CSU is still well over ten percent. We cannot completely disconnect. In addition, there is also a certain Corona fatigue that has settled over the country. "This is now apparently also being felt by the CSU - which has continued to struggle with the survey figures that have been manageable for weeks.
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