Overview
- ZDF Politbarometer shows CDU/CSU at 26 percent, AfD at 25, SPD at 15, Greens at 12, and the Left at 10, leaving no majority for a black-red alliance.
- Seventy-eight percent of respondents say Trump’s policies endanger NATO, and 69 percent want the EU to oppose U.S. military actions seen as resource-driven.
- Most Germans reject an AfD minister-president in states such as Saxony-Anhalt or Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, with 69 percent calling that a bad outcome.
- In Brandenburg, an Insa poll after the SPD/BSW breakup puts AfD at 34 percent, SPD at 25, CDU at 13, and finds 68 percent of voters favor new elections.
- Brandenburg SPD and CDU leaders will ask party committees to open formal coalition negotiations as Dietmar Woidke continues with a minority government and declines a snap vote.