According to a new survey, the Union lost shortly before the Bundestag election. In the ZDF Politbarometer, the CDU and CSU only come to 28 percent, Two points less than last week. The Union remains significantly strongest. Union Chancellor Friedrich Merz said after a CDU board exam in Hamburg in January that he assumed that “we can achieve an election result in the second half of the thirties than in the first half of the thirties.”
The AfD as the second strongest force can increase by one point to 21 percent in the ZDF polite barometer. SPD and Greens remain at 16 or 14 percent. With eight percent (+1), the left would safely into the Bundestag. FDP and BSW would have to worry about moving into parliament. In the survey, both come to 4.5 percent each, each half of the percentage point more than in the previous week. According to ZDF, 27 percent of those surveyed do not yet know whether they want to choose and if so, then whom.
When asked who people prefer to see as a chancellor, named 32 percent Union Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz (-1 compared to the previous week). Green candidate Robert Habeck has 21 percent (-3), Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) to 18 percent (+1) and AfD candidate Alice Weidel unchanged.
For the ZDF Politbarometer, the research group elections responded by telephone and online on February 19 and 20 February 1,349.
