Overview
- Dissatisfaction with the federal CDU/CSU–SPD government reaches 71%, a new high and two points higher than December 19.
- Only 22% say they are satisfied with the government’s work.
- Chancellor Friedrich Merz receives majority negative ratings, with 67% dissatisfied and 24% satisfied.
- In party preferences, AfD leads at 26% ahead of the Union at 24%, followed by SPD 14%, Greens 12%, Left 11%, FDP 4%, BSW 3%, and others 6%.
- Compared with the prior Insa reading, AfD is unchanged, the Union slips one point, the Greens gain one, BSW loses one, and the results arrive before state elections in Baden‑Württemberg, Rhineland‑Palatinate, Saxony‑Anhalt, Mecklenburg‑Western Pomerania and Berlin.