For the first time since the Bundestag election, the SPD is losing approval in a poll.
The possible traffic light coalition can still make gains.
Berlin - The SPD's catch-up race in this year's federal elections will probably go down in history: In June, the Social Democrats were still with polls below 15 percent.
At the end of September, the party led by Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz won 25.7 percent of the vote and became the strongest force in the Bundestag.
This one-off upward trend is now taking a dampening month after the election.
For the first time since the Bundestag election, the SPD loses approval in a poll
The trend barometer from RTL / ntv and the Forsa Institute leads the SPD in the Sunday question with 25 percent of the votes.
This means that the Social Democrats are not only below their election results, but for the first time since the election they have to accept polling losses again.
In the last Forsa poll on October 19, the SPD still got 26 percent of the vote.
The possible traffic light coalition at federal level can, however, continue to grow overall in the latest survey.
This is due to the profits that the Greens and FDP record.
The Greens received 17 percent of the votes in the poll and thus improved their previous Forsa poll result by one percentage point.
The Free Democrats are experiencing the same increase, rising from 15 to 16 percent in the current survey.
Union stagnates at 20 percent - voters believe the SPD has the greatest competence
The other parties represented in the Bundestag are meanwhile stagnating on the results of the last survey.
The Union continues to reach 20 percent and would thus remain the second strongest force.
The AfD has nine percent, the left five.
The other parties lose one percentage point and come to eight percent.
The SPD is also losing ground when it comes to questions about political competence.
19 percent of those surveyed believe that the SPD can best cope with the problems in Germany.
A minus of three percentage points.
Only seven percent still trust the Union to do so.
The Greens reach nine percent (-1) and the FDP comes to ten percent (+1).
Scholz wants the majority as Chancellor - only eight percent for Laschet
If the respondents could choose the next Federal Chancellor directly, 52 percent would choose Olaf Scholz.
One percentage point less than in the last survey.
Armin Laschet still has eight percent approval.
In the politician ranking, Scholz has to record slight losses, but is still in second place behind the outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Markus Söder had to accept significant losses, who lost seven points and was still in third place in the ranking.
The CSU boss shares the place with the Greens boss Robert Habeck (+1).
The top 5 is completed by the big winner of the current ranking.
FDP boss Christian Lindner added nine points and moved up to fifth place.
Notes on the survey: The data was collected by the market and opinion research institute forsa on behalf of RTL Germany from October 19 to 25, 2021. Database: 2,510 respondents. Statistical margin of error: +/- 2.5v percentage points. The politician ranking data were collected from October 20-22, 2021. Database: 1,530 respondents.
