The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Saturday drew ahead of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives in a new opinion poll.
Merz's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), dropped by one percentage point to 25% in the INSA poll for the Sunday edition of the Bild newspaper.
The AfD, Germany's largest opposition party, was unchanged from last week's survey on 26%. The anti-immigrant party is under investigation by domestic intelligence services for its extremist views, but surged to second place in the 2025 parliamentary election.
In third place were Merz's centre-left coalition partners in the Social Democratic Party (SPD), down one point to 13%.
The opposition Greens and The Left were also unchanged at 12% and 11% respectively.
The margin of error was 2.9 percentage points, with 1,199 respondents participating in the survey.
LATEST POSTS
- 1
Explosions heard across Tehran after IDF announces wave of strikes on regime terror targets - 2Winter solstice 2025 marks the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere today
- 3The Main 20 Gaming Control center Ever
- 4From Squid Game to Your Party! Six Entertaining Test Games That Will Have You in Join
- 5New movies to watch this weekend: See 'We Bury the Dead' in theaters, rent 'Wicked: For Good,' stream 'The Unbreakable Boy' on Starz
- Catch the moon dancing with bright star Regulus tonight
- Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches landmark Mars mission in New Glenn rocket’s first big test
- 'The Drama' plot twist, explained: What did Zendaya's character do, and what happens to her wedding?
- Watch Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket ace its epic landing on a ship at sea (video)
- Former Israeli judge does not expect Netanyahu to be pardoned
- Sarkozy says he owes France 'the truth' as he challenges conviction over alleged Libya funding
- Pick Your Favored kind of soup
- Manual for Tracking down One of a kind Store Inns
- The Most Astonishing Arising Advances to Watch
