Today’s Forsa poll for Stern and RTL shows a largely unchanged position over the previous week’s survey, with the CDU/CSU holding a 14 percentage point lead over their SPD rivals, 38 to 24 per cent. Third placed liberals the FDP improve a point to 9 per cent, to draw level again with their highest Forsa […]
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Resurgent CDU in best poll since January
Today’s weekly Forsa survey for Stern and RTL shows Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU adding national momentum to its big weekend regional victory in Nordrhein-Westfalen. At 38 per cent, the CDU achieves its best voting intention score with Forsa since 18 January. Moreover this is the best poll for the Christian Democrats with any of Germany’s […]
Schulz bubble bursts with Forsa, CDU leads by 7
Today’s Forsa opinion poll for Stern magazine and RTL confirms at Federal level the lesson of the Saarland regional election: the great SPD surge inspired by new leader Martin Schulz is well and truly over. Angel Merkel’s CDU/CSU has moved up to 36 per cent of Bundestag voting intentions, opening a seven-point gap to their […]
Major failure for pollsters in Saarland vote
With the provisional official results just out in tonight’s regional election in Saarland, it is clear the opinion polls have failed to pick up the resilience of Angela Merkel’s CDU and over-estimated the ‘Schulz effect’ from the SPD’s recent change of leader. All six polls carried out in March (by four different firms) […]
Saarland is first test in German election year
A week today voters in the German Federal State of Saarland will go to the polls to elect a new regional parliament. Normally Saarland, the second smallest of the country’s 16 Laender with a population of just 995,000, would barely feature on the political radar – but this contest will be interesting for several reasons: […]
Germany: Closest race with Forsa since 2010
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 […]