Forsa inquiry: Merkel in Bavaria more popular than Seehofer and Söder

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F For Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, things are getting tense: his reputation among the people has tarnished in the context of the refugee dispute. 62% of Germans consider that a resignation of the Minister of the Interior is appropriate. Proponents of CSU are also in the majority (56%). This is clear from the RTL / n-tv barometer.

We can also see the controversy of the Minister of the Interior on the issue of character traits: within the party, he sees as many politicians honest (46%) as "troublemakers". (46 per cent) In comparison, in the total population, almost two-thirds of Germans (62 per cent) consider it a "troublemaker", while even one-third (27 per cent) consider it a "politician".

Among non-CSU supporters, most voters have a critical attitude towards Seehofer: most supporters of the CDU (70%), SPD (81%), Greens (87%), of the left (83%) and the FDP (64%) consider it a "troublemaker." Only supporters of the AFD believe that Seehofer: 84% consider him a "politician integrity" and 90 % see no reason to resign as interior minister

on the 12th / 13th of July – 1,004 people were interviewed The statistical error tolerance is +/- 3 percentage points

Merkel in Bavaria more popular than Seehofer and Söder

The current ranking of politicians shows that Seehofer and the Premie Bavarian Minister Markus Söder (CDU) lost all confidence. Söder lost on April 10, Seehofer 11 points. So, the two politicians occupy the back seats. Behind the two CSU politicians, only the leaders of the AfD's parliamentary group, Alice Weidel and Alexander Gauland, ranked in July, according to the Forsa rankings

The ranking evaluates politicians on a scale of 1 at 100. Söder reaches 32, Seehofer 31 points. For comparison: the leader Angela Merkel arrives at 54 points. Even in Bavaria, the two CSU politicians lost confidence. Three months before the state election, Söder only scored 45 points in his home country (minus 9 points compared to April), Seehofer only 39 points (minus 10 points). ). Angela Merkel is in Bavaria after the trade union-internal conflict with 47% more popular than the two Christsozialen

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Angela Merkel's support among CDU supporters is still exceptionally high with 84 points out of 100 possible. It receives by far the highest value of all political actors in the Union. Seehofer and Söder, on the other hand, do not come out as well, they only receive 34 or 39 points from the supporters of the CDU

The duo does not appreciate that the fans of the CDU AfD: 51 points for Söder, 55 points for Seehofer. The boss of Forsa, Prof. Manfred Güllner, told the RTL press group: "The Seehofer crash in the current ranking of politicians is due to the fact that he lost all credibility because of his conflict with Merkel and his appearances in most Germans: Only AfD supporters who want to fight CSU, Seehofer is still esteemed. "

Data on the ranking of politicians was collected by Forsa on behalf of the RTL media group the 10 and July 11th. There were 1,011 respondents. The tolerance of the statistical error is +/- 3 percentage points

The CSU collapse in the national survey

In polls, the Union reaches 31% , SPD 17%, FDP 9%, Greens 13%, left 9%, AfD 16 percent. 5% would opt for one of the other parties. 24% of eligible voters are undecided or would not vote. With the result that the CDU would maintain with 26 percent its federal election result in approximately, CSU nationwide would only come to 5 percent (compared to 6.2 percent in September 2017).

Data for the party preference were from 9. to July 13, Forsa, the institute of market research and public opinion, on behalf of Mediengruppe RTL. 2,505 people were interviewed. The statistical error tolerance is +/- 2.5 percentage points.