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While Laschet grapples with Baerbock: Union falls to the lowest value ever recorded in a new survey

2021-09-08T03:17:37.290Z


The CDU / CSU continues to slide in favor of the voters. Now a survey shows historically poor approval ratings. The situation is serious.


The CDU / CSU continues to slide in favor of the voters.

Now a survey shows historically poor approval ratings.

The situation is serious.

Berlin - The CDU / CSU is losing more and more ground in the polls.

According to a recent survey by the polling institute Forsa, the Union only comes in at 19 percent.

For the first time in this federal election campaign, the longstanding Chancellor's party has slipped below the 20 percent mark.

"That should be the lowest value that an institute has ever determined for the party since 1949," said Forsa.

At that time, the party achieved its worst result in a federal election with 31 percent (2017: 32.9).

Bundestag election: SPD extends lead - six percentage points ahead of the Union, eight in front of the Greens

Meanwhile, the SPD is benefiting from the crash of the CDU / CSU, which can make up two percentage points compared to the last Forsa survey. With currently 25 percent, the Social Democrats are now six percentage points ahead of the Union and eight percentage points ahead of the Greens, whose value has fallen by one percentage point to 17 percent. The FDP would come to 13 percent (+1), AfD (11) and Linke (7) remained unchanged.

Majorities capable of governing the government have, according to the survey, only tripartite alliances.

Mathematically, a traffic light coalition (SPD, Greens, FDP), a Kenya alliance (SPD, CDU, Greens) or Red-Red-Green (SPD, Greens, Left) would come into question.

A German coalition with the SPD, Union and FDP would theoretically be conceivable, but is unlikely due to the current strength of the Social Democrats.

The “Germany” coalition, which is attractive for the coservative political camp, would probably only come into question under the leadership of the Union.

Notes on the survey

The data on party preferences were collected by the market and opinion research institute Forsa on behalf of Mediengruppe RTL from August 31 to September 6, 2021.

The database is based on 2,505 respondents.

The statistical margin of error is +/- 2.5 percentage points.

Bundestag election: Laschet slips into chancellor preference below ten percent - Söder triumphs

The fact that the SPD is leading in the polls also seems to be due to the Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz.

The current finance minister wins the chancellor preference by one percentage point and continues to be the undisputed leader with 30 percent approval.

Green candidate Annalena Baerbock has an unchanged 15 percent approval.

Union chancellor candidate Armin Laschet has lost two percentage points and slips below the 10 mark with nine percent.

The gap between Scholz and Laschet is now 21 percentage points.

46 percent of those questioned would not choose any of the three applicants.

Interesting: If CSU boss Markus Söder were the Union's candidate for chancellor, 38 percent would choose him, only 21 percent for Olaf Scholz and 15 percent for Annalena Baerbock.

Even among the voters of the CDU in 2017, Söder was 42 percentage points with 65 percent, ahead of Laschet with just 23 percent.

Another survey recently produced a similar result.

However, the Bavarian Prime Minister should not only look with pleasure at the current surveys.

Because in a current opinion poll, the CSU falls below the magic mark of 30 percent.

Video: Slap in Bavaria: CSU falls below 30 percent in favor of the voters

The survey setback reached the Union during the last plenary session in the German Bundestag. When the numbers were published, Laschet was engaged in a battle of words with Baerbock. When it came to climate policy, the CDU leader accused his opponent of “dishonesty”. Baerbock then took the floor in the form of an interim question - and countered.

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Source: merkur

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