Germany’s main opposition party, the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, is rapidly growing in popularity among voters. This is evidenced by a recent Insa poll for Bild.
In more than three years, the CDU/CSU has achieved a record level of 33% voter support. This is two percentage points higher than the previous week and even five percentage points higher than the three governing parties combined.
The coalition government has fallen to its lowest approval rating in the entire pre-election period. The chancellor’s party, the SPD, lost one point compared to the previous week and now lags behind the CDU/CSU with 14% support by a whopping 19 percentage points.
The Greens remain weak, with 10% of the vote. The BSW party of Putin’s left-wing radical “friend,” Sarah Wagenknecht, has the same score.
The Free Democrats with 4% and the Left Party with 3% will not get into the Bundestag.
The far-right Alternative for Germany remains the second-strongest party with 19% of the vote.
Other parties together account for seven percent.
According to INSA head Hermann Binkert, these figures would make it impossible to form a government without and against the CDU/CSU.
All four other parties in the parliament—that is, the AfD and the BsW, together with the SPD and the Greens—would have to join forces to achieve a majority against the CDU/CSU. But both the SPD and the Greens will rule out political cooperation with the far right.
Scholz’s poor ratings have prompted Scholz’s SPD to suggest finding a new candidate for chancellor in next year’s national elections.
