Sunday trend
Survey: AfD continues to lose support
Tino Chrupalla, Bernd Baumann and Alice Weidel: lowest survey values since June 2023
© Thomas Trutschel
The Sunday trend shows: The AfD is losing support among German voters. Nevertheless, the right-wing populist party initially remains the second strongest force.
The AfD has continued to lose support among voters in Germany. According to the “According to the Sunday trend”, which the polling institute Insa collects weekly for “Bild am Sonntag”, the right-wing populist party would get 19 percent of the vote in the next federal election. That is one percentage point less than in the previous week – and the lowest value since June 2023.
According to the survey, the Union parties CDU and CSU remain by far the strongest force: They would therefore have 31 percent (plus one percentage point). The parties in the government coalition would still be far from a common majority: the SPD would lose one point to 14 percent, the Greens would remain at 13 percent and the FDP would still miss re-entry into the Bundestag with four percent.
FDP as the federal government’s scapegoat
According to the survey, the newly founded Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) gained one point to eight percent of the vote. The Left would fail to enter the Bundestag with three percent, just like the Free Voters, and the other parties would also get eight percent.
According to the survey, a clear majority of 62 percent of people in Germany are of the opinion that it was a mistake for the FDP to join the traffic light coalition. Only 24 percent don’t believe that. Among the supporters of the traffic light parties, only 42 percent of those surveyed consider the FDP participation to be a mistake.
The Insa Institute surveyed 1,203 people for the “Sunday trend” from last Monday to Friday. The margin of error was given as plus/minus 2.9 percentage points. Insa said it surveyed 1,005 people about the question of the FDP’s participation in the traffic light coalition.