Sunday question: Insa: Poll numbers of the traffic light parties hardly changed

Despite the breakup of the traffic light coalition a few days ago, there is hardly any movement in the parties’ approval ratings, according to a current survey. In the Sunday trend conducted by the Insa survey institute on behalf of “Bild am Sonntag”, the SPD lost one point compared to the previous week and ended up at 15 percent. The Greens remain at 10 percent. The FDP, which has left the government, also maintains its value from the previous week and would no longer be represented in the Bundestag with 4 percent.

The strongest force remains the Union, which maintains its value from the previous week at 32 percent. The AfD gains one point and ends up with 19 percent, while the BSW loses slightly and scores 7 percent (-1). With 4 percent, the Left would also miss out on returning to parliament.

Election surveys are generally always subject to uncertainty. Among other things, weakening party ties and increasingly short-term voting decisions make it more difficult for opinion research institutes to weight the data collected. In principle, surveys only reflect the opinion at the time of the survey and are not predictions of the election outcome.

72 percent dissatisfied with the Chancellor’s work

According to another Insa survey, dissatisfaction with Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) has increased significantly in comparison. When asked whether they were satisfied or dissatisfied with the Chancellor’s work, 72 percent of those surveyed answered “dissatisfied.” That was 5 points more than in a survey in mid-October, it said.

58 percent were dissatisfied with the work of ex-Finance Minister Christian Lindner, whom Scholz fired this week.

More than half of those surveyed also stated that they rated the Chancellor’s behavior in the current crisis as disrespectful towards his political opponents such as Christian Lindner and Friedrich Merz. According to the survey, 53 percent said that they found the behavior rather disrespectful. On the other hand, 30 percent called the Chancellor’s behavior more respectful. 59 percent of those surveyed rated the behavior towards citizens as rather disrespectful, while 29 percent rated it as rather respectful.