Overview

• In the Forsa Trendbarometer, AfD leads with 26% to the CDU/CSU’s 25%, with SPD at 13%, Greens at 12% and Linke at 11%.
• Forsa surveyed 2,501 people from 19–25 August with a stated margin of error of ±2.5 percentage points.
• Insa’s poll, published 25 August for Bild, records a 25% tie between CDU/CSU and AfD and places the Greens at 10.5% behind the Left at 11% for the first time since 2018.
• Insa shows SPD at 15%, with BSW at 4.5% and FDP at 3.5%, both below the Bundestag’s 5% threshold; the survey interviewed 2,002 people from 22–25 August.
• Personal rankings reported by Bild show Linke leader Heidi Reichinnek rising as Greens leaders Katharina Dröge and Franziska Brantner slip, and Robert Habeck’s Bundestag exit is noted as not yet reflected in these fieldworks.