Survey low for Merz
Union and AfD for the first time
Updated on 05.04.2025 – 07:41 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The Union currently receives significantly less encouragement than in the election a few weeks ago. Meanwhile, the AfD can be happy.
The Union continues to slip: In a recent survey, the CDU and CSU land just 24 percent and thus two percentage points below the value of the previous week. The AfD, which was able to gain one percentage point, is now on par. This emerges from the Sunday trend of the INSA survey institute for “Bild”.
It is the first time that Union and AfD share first place in a survey. Since the beginning of March, the Union has lost six percentage points and has also won a total of 28.6 percent of the votes compared to the result of the Bundestag election, at the CDU/CSU, the current result is a clear blow. It is the lowest value in an INSA survey since 2022.
Insa boss Hermann Binkert says the “Bild”: “The Union puts on a dramatic crash. There has never been such a loss of approval in the period between the Bundestag election and government formation.”
The AfD, on the other hand, is more strong than ever. The persistent coalition negotiations seem to give the party buoyancy. The SPD remains at 16 percent. The Greens come to 11 percent. The left increases by one percentage point and comes to eleven percent. BSW and FDP each receive four percent.
That also means: If you were to be chosen again, the parties, the Union and SPD, which is currently negotiating through a coalition agreement, would not receive a parliamentary majority. For this they need 43 percent, in the survey they only come to 40 percent. Black and red then needed the Greens or the left. An alliance between the Union and AfD would also be mathematically conceivable, but was excluded several times by CDU boss Friedrich Merz.
