Agency Report –
Berlin – The three parties leading so far in the German polls have lost ground slightly, according to the latest survey by the INSA Institute, conducted two weeks ahead of national elections.
The conservative CDU/CSU alliance, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) each lost one percentage point compared to the previous week in the survey conducted for the Bild newspaper.
The CDU/CSU bloc are still clearly in the lead with 29%, followed by the AfD with 21% and the SPD with 16%.
The Left party gained one point to reach 5%, meaning it can hope to pass the threshold needed to return to parliament. The Greens remain in fourth place with 12%.
The populist Sahra Wagenknecht alliance is also stagnating at 6%, while the liberal Free Democratic Party – which had been part of the governing coalition until pulling out in November, triggering the earlier elections – remains at 4%, and thus below the 5% threshold.
The other parties have risen by two points and together now account for 7%.
INSA interviewed a total of 1,204 people from February 3-7 for the survey.
