Berlin: CDU continues to be the strongest force according to the election survey - SPD and the Greens lose approval

Berlin: CDU continues to be the strongest force according to the election survey - SPD and the Greens lose approval

The Berlin CDU retains its position as the strongest force in Berlin, according to a current election survey by the Civey opinion research institute. According to the survey, the CDU reaches 24 percent of the vote and is therefore clearly ahead of the SPD and the Greens. However, the CDU loses about four percentage points compared to the repetition.

The values ​​for the other parties change only slightly compared to the Berlin election in February. The SPD gains easily and reaches 19 percent, while Die Linke improves its result to 13 percent. The AfD also gains about one percentage point and achieves 10 percent. The Greens lose easily and come to 17 percent of the votes. According to the survey, the FDP, which had failed at the five percent hurdle in February

This means that the CDU and SPD would have to worry about their majority in parliament if a new member of the House of Representatives would take place next Sunday. According to the result of the survey, the parties would miss the parliamentary majority.

The Governing Mayor Kai Wegner (CDU) can look at comparatively good approval values ​​around 100 days after taking office. According to another Civey survey, 32 percent of Berliners are satisfied with his work, while 42 percent are dissatisfied. Compared to his predecessor Franziska Giffey (SPD), this means a significant increase in trust. Before the election in February, only 18 percent were satisfied with Giffey's work, while 71 percent expressed dissatisfaction.

The consent to the Berlin Senate as a whole is mixed. 55 percent of the respondents are dissatisfied with the work of black and red in the first 100 days since taking office, while 32 percent are satisfied. However, the approval values ​​for the previous government were significantly worse at the beginning of the year. At that time, 73 percent were dissatisfied with red-green-red and only 24 percent.

The CDU and the SPD had agreed on a coalition government by 2026 after the repetition was selected in February after the SPD decided against the continuation of the red-green-red alliance. The Senate under the new Governing Mayor Kai Wegner was sworn in on April 27, 2023.

A little more than 2,000 people took part in the Civey survey at the end of July. The fault tolerance is 3.8 percent, which means that the actual values ​​with a probability of 95 percent are a maximum of 3.8 percentage points above or below the determined values.

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