There were 25 national polls carried out by nine firms in Germany in June, the highest monthly total of the year so far as September’s Bundestag elections draw ever nearer. While it may have seemed at the end of May that things couldn’t get any better for Chancellor Angela Merkel, June turned out to be […]
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CDU, Die Linke, AfD all outperform in East
A triple set of state-level opinion polls has been released today by public broadcaster Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk covering national parliamentary voting intentions across three regions in the centre and south of East Germany. The results will be a delight for Chancellor Angela Merkel, with her Christian Democrat party (CDU) strongly outperforming already high nationwide scores of […]
Best Ipsos lead since January for Germany’s CDU
Chancellor Angel Merkel’s ruling Christian Democratic CDU/CSU has widened its lead over her Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners from 10 to 12 points in today’s fortnightly poll from Ipsos Germany – the last time the margin was this wide was on 15 January. In addition the CDU score of 38 per cent is the joint […]
30 point lead for Merkel on personal ratings
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 […]
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 […]