Survey on the federal election: “Numbers are solidifying” - but there is one big but

In the ZDF Politbarometer, the SPD remains clearly ahead with Olaf Scholz in the polls for the federal election.

But there is still hope for Armin Laschet and the Union.

Munich / Berlin - CSU leader Markus Söder threatened the SPD around Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz and the Greens around Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock at the party conference in Nuremberg (September 10).

He wanted to “save Germany from the left.

Don't be so self-confident, watch out, we'll catch you on the last few meters, ”said the 54-year-old Franconian to his enthusiastic party friends.

But: The polls for the 2021 federal election (September 26th) paint a different picture.

Survey on the 2021 federal election: ZDF Politbarometer - SPD is still ahead of CDU and CSU

“The numbers are solidifying.” With these words, ZDF presented its latest “Politbarometer” on the same evening.

According to this, Scholz's SPD remains constant at 25 percent, while the CDU and CSU with Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet stagnate at 22 percent.

The Greens come to 17 percent, the FDP and AfD to 11 percent each and the Left to 6 percent.

The free voters around the Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs Hubert Aiwanger land at 3 percent.

Survey on the 2021 federal election: ZDF Politbarometer - focus on social justice

• ZDF Politbarometer: The topic is very important for my voting decision ...

• Social justice = 51 percent

• Climate protection = 39 percent

• Corona = 23 percent

• Refugees / asylum = 21 percent

Even more: According to the

ZDF

poll for the federal election,

48 percent of those questioned would like

SPD man Scholz to be the new Chancellor and successor to Angela Merkel (CDU), who is still head of government.

Laschet comes to 21 percent on this question, Green top candidate Baerbock to 16 percent.

And further: 70 percent of those surveyed consider Scholz to be suitable as Federal Chancellor, only 25 percent do so with Laschet and only 23 percent with Baerbock.

In the video: CSU leader Markus Söder swears the party to the federal election in 2021

You'd think it looks like a definite thing by now. If it weren't for a big but, which probably gives Söder, Laschet and the Union in particular hope. Because: As the ZDF Politbarometer goes on to say, around 41 percent of those eligible to vote do not yet finally know whether, and if so, who they want to vote for.

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