New polling milestones are coming thick and fast in Germany’s suddenly-changed political landscape. This morning’s Forsa poll for Stern magazine and RTL puts the gap between the CDU/CSU and SPD at just 1 per cent – the smallest this pollster has shown since the summer of 2010. Clearly the revitalized SPD is picking up support […]
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Germany: SPD gains nine points with GMS
The scale of the Social Democrats‘ surge following their change of leadership is well illustrated by yesterday’s monthly poll from GMS that shows an incredible advance of nine percentage points since the firm’s 5 January survey. The ‘Schulz effect’ is clearly visible in the SPD score of 29 per cent, versus 33 for […]
Schulz candidacy shakes up German national polls
The selection of former European Parliament President Martin Schulz as the SPD’s candidate to take on Angel Merkel in this September’s Bundestag elections has led to some uncharacteristically sharp movements in German polling this week. The opposition Social Democrats, long marooned on low ratings barely above 20 per cent, will take comfort from a […]