German Trends: AfD Continues to Rise in Polls as Parties Unite to Prevent Their Candidates

2023-06-22 22:01:14

Status: 23.06.2023 00:01

The AfD continues its poll high: With 19 percent, it represses loudly ARD Germany trend the SPD in third place. A majority of respondents think it’s good when parties come together to prevent AfD candidates.

If there were federal elections next Sunday, according to the survey results of the current GermanyTrends for the ARD morning magazine the strongest faction. She might keep her result from three weeks ago at 29 percent. The AfD has improved once more and, at 19 percent, would reach the highest value ever determined for this party in the ARD Germany trend (+ 1 compared to June 1, 2023).

The SPD would be pushed to third place by the AfD and would receive 17 percent of the vote (-1). Bündnis 90/Die Grünen would once more come to 15 percent, for the FDP it would go down once more to six percent (-1) following recently better approval ratings. Four percent of voters would still vote for the Left Party – that would not be enough for a seat in the Bundestag.

Majority for merger once morest AfD candidates

In order to prevent AfD candidates in runoff elections for mayor or district offices, the other parties have recently come together more frequently and issued a recommendation for opposing candidates. About every second citizen (52 percent) considers this procedure to be correct. More than a third of those surveyed (35 percent) in the current DeutschlandTrend for the ARD morning magazine thinks this is wrong. 13 percent do not want to or cannot express themselves.

The coalition once morest the election of AfD candidates is supported by supporters of all parties, with the exception of the AfD. In the new federal states, however, the number of critical voices once morest the solidarity once morest AfD candidates is 40 percent higher than in the old federal states. 47 percent consider this approach to be correct.

Nationwide, there is even a slight increase among 35 to 49 year olds at 45 to 44 percent for those who see the cooperation of the parties once morest the AfD candidates critically. The over 65s have the greatest approval for this step (58 to 31 percent).

Car is the most popular means of transport for summer vacations

For millions of Germans, the car remains the most popular means of transport for the upcoming summer vacation. 41 percent of those surveyed rely on the car to start their summer vacation. 17 percent plan to fly and seven percent use the train. Other means of transport are of little importance.

Many stay at home

However, three out of ten Germans (29 percent) will not go on holiday this year. Your own financial situation is the biggest obstacle. In particular, people with a low household income of less than 1,500 euros a month want to stay at home this summer (57 percent). In the case of older fellow citizens over 65, every second person wants to forego a summer holiday trip (49 percent).

investigation facility

Universe: Eligible voters in Germany
Collection method: Random telephone and online survey
Survey period: June 20-21, 2023
number of cases: 1191 respondents (699 telephone interviews and 492 online interviews)
Weighting: according to sociodemographic characteristics and recollection of voting behavior; Sunday question with separate weighting
fluctuation range: 2 percentage points for a share value of 10 percent
3 percentage points for a share value of 50 percent
Implementing institute: infratest dimap

Results are rounded to whole percentages to avoid false expectations of precision. Because for all representative surveys, fluctuation ranges must be taken into account. In the case of a survey with 1000 respondents, these amount to around three percentage points for large parties and around one point for smaller parties. In addition, the rounding error is significant for small parties. For these reasons, no party below three percent is shown in the Sunday question.

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