Politics Survey: AfD increasingly strong in Germany
Just over a month after the Bundestag elections, the right-wing populist AfD is only just behind the Christian Democrats, according to a YouGov survey.
26.03.2025, 08:58
SDA
The CDU and CSU came in at 26% in the Sunday poll, with the AfD at 24%. In the Bundestag election on February 23, the CDU/CSU won 28.5 percent of the second votes, while the AfD was the second strongest force with 20.8 percent.
The SPD came in at 15 percent in the survey, slightly less than the 16.4 percent from election day. At 12%, the Greens were able to roughly maintain their election result (11.6%). The Left Party, on the other hand, increased again to 10 percent (8.8 percent).
The left-wing alliance Sahra Wagenknecht, which missed out on entering parliament by a wafer-thin margin, has reached 5% according to YouGov. The FDP (Liberals) landed at 3 percent. It had also missed re-election to the Bundestag with 4.3%.
Election polls are generally fraught with uncertainty, they only reflect opinion at the time of the survey and are therefore not a forecast of the election outcome.
Still little belief in an improvement in living conditions
Following the presentation of an exploratory paper, the CDU/CSU and SPD are in the middle of coalition negotiations. Many are not yet confident that things will change for the better. 30% believe that their living conditions would deteriorate under a black-red coalition. Only 9% are convinced of the opposite. Around half (49%) of those eligible to vote expect that a black-red coalition would neither improve nor worsen their living conditions.
