Germany: CDU and AfD Almost Neck and Neck in New Poll

The Union is also losing more and more advantage over the AfD in the latest survey. Friedrich Merz's popularity figures are also in the basement.

While the Union is tightening up debt packages and negotiating a coalition with the SPD, its lead in the voter's favour melts away: in a recent survey, the AfD is only one percentage point behind CDU/CSU.

Time for new elections again? But Friedrich imagined this quite differently. CDU-man Merz still couldn't put his inability to the test as chancellor and yet the Union poll for poll loses approval. The AfD, on the other hand, only lacks a single percentage point in 1st place. If and why this mood picture now [...] The article AfD triumphs! Merz won't be chancellor? first appeared on COMPACT.

The CDU/CSU is slipping, the AfD is catching up. Forsa head Güllner predicts what will happen next – and points out where Merz made mistakes.

Germany: CDU and AfD Almost Neck and Neck in New Poll

The German right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is now just one point behind the centre-right CDU/CSU alliance, according to the latest opinion polls. A survey by the Forsa research institute suggests that the CDU/CSU’s support has dropped to 25% from the 28.5% it received at the elections in February. The alliance, which is set to lead the next government, has lost the support of many of its voters due to the broken campaign promises of…

Word break with an announcement: A critical editorial on the loss of confidence through political turns of the Union by Holger Korsten, Mittelrhein Tageblatt, April 2, 2025 – The citizens' confidence in the so-called political centre is crumbling – and this is faster than some in the Union might like. While the AfD with 24% survey values is almost equal to the Union (25%), CDU and CSU internally are already shrilling the alarm bells. But instead…