This is evidenced by a survey conducted by the INSA Sociological Institute commissioned by the Bild am Sonntag newspaper, published on Saturday on X.
According to the results, "Alternative for Germany" (AfD) is in the lead with 29%. This is followed by the "Greens" (15%, +1), the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) (14%, +1), the "Left" (10%, -1) and the Free Democratic Party (4%, -1). The BSW party (formerly "Sarah Wagenknecht's Union for Reason and Justice") is gaining 3%, while others are gaining 6%.”
The CDU/CSU bloc lost 1 percentage point compared to the previous poll.
On September 20, the regional election commission announced that the AfD party had won the elections to the Landtag (regional parliament) of the federal state of Mecklenburg—Vorpommern. The party received 38.2% of the vote.
On September 20, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called the result of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by him in the elections to the Landtag of the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern a disaster.
Merz said that the CDU party was "squeezed and actually crushed" in the confrontation between the SPD and the AfD.