The German Social Democrats (SPD) came out ahead of Angela Merkel’s Conservatives for the first time in 15 years, according to a poll by the Forsa Institute for RTL / NTV published today, a month before German elections. Angela Merkel will resign after the elections on September 26, while the conservative bloc of CDU / CSU has been weakened by the disputes over the leadership of the party, reports APE.
Support for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) has been steadily declining in recent weeks. The SPD has increased its strength by 2 percentage points over the previous week to 23%, while the CDU / CSU have lost one percentage point to 22% and the Greens have also lost one percentage point to 18%, according to with the results of the poll. According to Forsa, this is the first time the SPD has been ahead of the CDU / CSU since October 2006, with Christian associations recording their lowest percentage since the institute was founded in 1984.
Some conservatives have blamed falling support for CDU Chancellor and President Armin Lassett, whose performance has plummeted since the camera caught him laughing last month during a visit to a flood-hit city. support for Lasset fell sharply in the latest Forsa poll, while it rose for SPD candidate and Finance Minister Olaf Soltz.
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