With just eight weeks to go until Germany’s federal election, July closed in a very satisfactory way for Chancellor Angela Merkel. Her Christian Democrat party (CDU/CSU) held onto its enormous average poll lead and indeed increased it slightly from 13.9 points over the Social Democrats (SPD) in June to 14.5 points in July. (It should […]
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Another low score for AfD with Ipsos Germany
German populists the AfD (Alternative for Germany) continue to struggle in July’s opinion polls, with an 8 per cent score in today’s Ipsos poll being the joint lowest for the party since Ipsos began its currently fortnightly series in September 2016. Other recent lows for the AfD include: 7 per cent with GMS […]
Merkel widens average lead to 14 points in June
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 […]
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 […]
Germany: Greens and AfD suffer as SPD maintains advance
Four national polls this week confirm that the Social Democrats are holding onto their surge in voting intentions – while it is Die Gruenen and right-wing Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) who are suffering losses. The Greens’ score of 7 per cent in Forsa’s weekly poll for Stern magazine and RTL, released yesterday, is […]