The protests against right-wing extremism and the AfD continue. The party also feels this in surveys. But she’s not the only one losing approval.
According to a Forsa survey, the AfD falls to 19 percent nationwide and is therefore below the 20 percent mark in this survey for the first time since July 2023. Approval for the party had already fallen in the previous survey. In the RTL/ntv trend barometer published on Tuesday, the FDP and Die Linke fell to just three percent and would therefore fail to re-enter the Bundestag – as did the Free Voters and the Wagenknecht party BSW, which, like the previous week, also fell to three percent come.
Pistorius is the most popular politician
The Union with 32 percent and the SPD with 15 percent, however, each gained one percentage point. The Greens remain at 14 percent. The traffic light government would therefore be far from having the majority necessary to continue the coalition.
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The change for the AfD is probably also due to the fact that those surveyed now cite the nationwide protests against right-wing extremism as the most important single issue (31 percent). This is followed by the Ukraine war (27 percent), the Middle East conflict (25 percent), the traffic light policy (24 percent) and the farmers’ protests (24 percent).
When it comes to popularity of politicians, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius continues to lead (55 points). Then follow three Union Prime Ministers – Daniel Günther (48 points), Hendrik Wüst (47 points) and Markus Söder (41 points). In this survey, Chancellor Olaf Scholz is behind CDU leader Friedrich Merz for the first time.
The Forsa survey for RTL and ntv regularly determines which politicians the respondents see Germany as “in good hands”. Merz and Scholz swapped places. The CDU leader climbs to ninth place, the Chancellor slips to thirteenth place. In October it was the other way around.
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