Overview
- Sven Schulze told ZDF’s Markus Lanz that a government led by him would include no ministers from the AfD or The Left, reaffirming the CDU’s non-cooperation stance.
- Recent polling reported by Infratest dimap shows the AfD near 39–40 percent in Saxony‑Anhalt with the CDU in the mid‑20s, leaving post‑election coalition options uncertain.
- At a parliamentary group meeting, Chancellor Friedrich Merz presented an ifo-based three‑curve chart and warned the government would be judged a failure if state consumption, private investment and GDP do not converge.
- Forsa’s Manfred Güllner linked Merz’s low approval (25 percent satisfied, 72 percent dissatisfied) to an overemphasis on migration and urged a pivot to economic issues that most respondents rank as the top concern.
- Talk shows kept the issue in focus as ARD’s Maischberger pressed a Syria deportation debate and Green leader Cem Özdemir criticized the ‘Stadtbild’ discussion as simplistic while calling for cross‑party steps to improve public safety.