Sunday question
AfD in the survey for the first time in front of the Union
In the Bundestag election, the CDU and CSU were still in first place. According to a new survey, the AfD has now passed. Does the black and red coalition agreement provide a trend reversal?
Six and a half weeks after the Bundestag election, the AfD for the first time is in first place in a Germany -wide survey before the Union. At the so -called Sunday question from the IPSOS opinion research institute, the AfD achieved a share of 25 percent. CDU and CSU came together to only 24 percent. The historical survey result was published on the day on which the new black and red government presented its coalition agreement.
In view of the agreements between the Union and the SPD, this is “no coincidence”, according to the AfD chairman Alice Weidel. CDU boss Friedrich Merz, on the other hand, sees a “very, very good basis” in the coalition agreement to push the AfD back.
Approval for the CDU and CSU goes back sharply
After the IPSOS survey, the Union parties lose significantly compared to the Bundestag election of February 23, where they had still won 28.5 percent of the vote. The AfD, on the other hand, improved significantly compared to the election result of 20.8 percent. For the survey representative, according to the opinion researchers, a total of 1,000 people were interviewed on and April 4 and 5.
“There has never been such a dramatic drop in consent between a federal election and before the swearing in the new government,” emphasized Weidel, and sees her party on the right track. “I will promise you: We are sitting in the government in the next legislature.”
Merz, on the other hand, builds on the appointments between the Union and the SPD to push back the illegal migration and to revitalize the economy. If people have the feeling that the political center could not only describe the country’s problems, but also solve, the extremist deprives the soil, said the probably future Chancellor at the presentation of the coalition agreement in Berlin.
Trend is evident in several surveys
Election surveys are generally always affected with uncertainties. Among other things, waning party bindings and more and more short -term election decisions make it difficult for the institutes to weight the data collected. In addition, surveys basically only reflect the opinion at the time of the survey and are not forecasts for an election outcome.
Already in a survey by the opinion research institute Insa for the “Bild” newspaper from the weekend, the AfD was on par with the Union for the first time. Also in the “trend barometer” of RTL and NTV on Tuesday, the AfD only ranked just behind the CDU and CSU.
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Source: Stern
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