Overview
- The AfD has climbed to 25 percent support in the latest INSA survey, marking its highest level since mid-May.
- The CDU/CSU held steady at 27 percent and the SPD at 15 percent, while the Greens, the Left, BSW and the FDP saw no change in their polling.
- A Union-SPD coalition commands 42 percent, falling below the 44 percent threshold needed for a Bundestag majority.
- CSU leader Markus Söder ruled out any coalition with the AfD and called for intensified domestic intelligence monitoring in light of growing right-wing extremism.
- Only 31 percent of respondents approved of Chancellor Merz’s performance, the lowest rating of his tenure since taking office in May.