In a second current opinion poll, the CDU and CSU together only achieve 20 percent.
CSU boss Markus Söder warns of a missed government participation.
Update from September 5, 10:22 p.m.:
The Union is currently in free fall
when it comes to
polls.
The SPD's lead is now five percent, as the Insa “Sunday trend” on behalf of
Bild has
now established (see initial report).
CSU boss Söder thinks that the Union will have to turn the tide next week.
"The polls are in fact not good," said the Bavarian Prime Minister three weeks before the vote on Sunday evening in the ZDF's "heute journal".
"The next week is now very crucial, the trend has to be broken."
Next survey bang: Union and Greens lose - Scholz` SPD continues to advance
First report from September 5th:
Berlin - Not just the “Politbarometer” (ZDF).
Not just the “Germany trend” (ARD).
Now the “Sunday trend” (Insa) also states: The SPD is expanding its lead over the CDU / CSU.
Markus Söder is alarmed, Jens Spahn hands out.
The SPD around its chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz gained
one percentage point
in the survey on behalf of
Bild am Sonntag (BamS)
compared to the previous week and is 25 percent.
The CDU and CSU with their candidate for Chancellor Armin Laschet together come to 20 percent, one point less than a week ago - and, according to the newspaper, an all-time low.
Election polls are generally always fraught with uncertainty.
In principle, they only reflect the opinion at the time of the survey and are not predictions of the outcome of the election.
Federal election 2021: Spahn accuses Scholz of “inheritance stealth”
In third place, the Greens of Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock lost one point and are now at 16 percent - followed by the FDP, which remains unchanged at 13 percent. According to pollsters from the Insa Institute, the AfD with 12 percent and the Left with 7 percent can each gain one point. The other parties together come to 7 percent (minus 1).
Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) meanwhile described Scholz's good poll results as “a bit of inheritance stealth”, and was at a question time during the event “Long Night of ZEIT” in Hamburg.
Showing the diamond gesture, Spahn said: "Your former mayor is standing there and pretending to be Merkel in male, which does not affect the politics that are in his program."
Nevertheless, this impression could have persisted with the people so far.
The CDU must now be more offensive in the election campaign, said Spahn.
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Armin Laschet and Markus Söder (archive image)
© Sven Simon / Imago
Federal election polls: Söder warns of missed government participation for Union
In view of the weak survey results, Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder even warns the Union against a missed participation in government.
The
CSU party leader told
Welt am Sonntag (WamS)
that although a trend reversal was still possible, “it is indeed very serious and it will be close”.
If the CDU and CSU are not in the government, “the party will face the toughest times”.
The aim must be to become the strongest parliamentary group in the Bundestag in order to prevent a red-green-red government from sliding to the left, he demanded.
The Union must “make it even clearer” that there are “only two” options: “Either slide to the left with the Left Party or with a traffic light”.
Because the traffic light - an alliance of the SPD and the Greens with the FDP - is a "diluted left slide", since the Liberals are the smallest party.
“The alternative, on the other hand, is an alliance under bourgeois leadership.” At the end of Red-Green, Germany was almost bankrupt with five million unemployed.
"A left slide always leads to unemployment and debt," said Söder of the
WamS
.
Federal election 2021: General secretaries attack candidates for chancellor
Meanwhile, the general secretaries of the CDU and SPD, Paul Ziemiak and Lars Klingbeil, have tackled the chancellor candidates of the respective competition sharply.
“(Armin) Laschet appears very thin-skinned.
He is just changing from the sleeping car in a panic to beating around wildly, ”said Klingbeil of the
BamS
.
"Laschet completely misses the seriousness that you need in the Chancellery."
Ziemiak said in the dispute about Scholz's refusal to exclude a coalition with the left: “This is the worst political trickery.
There is rumbling around to lull the voters into safety and in the end to deceive them. ”Of course, the SPD and the Greens would form a coalition with the left as soon as there was a majority.
“I find this dishonesty outrageous.
Anyone who fools the voters in this way is not allowed to lead a country. "
Klingbeil pointed out that a government alliance under Chancellor Scholz would have to commit to NATO, the Bundeswehr and the EU: “Everyone in the country knows that Olaf Scholz stands for seriousness and adheres to principles.
The SPD does not need any moral advice from a party that is involved in mask deals and other affairs. "
(Dpa / AFP / frs)
List of rubric lists: © Sven Simon / Imago
