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BERLIN (Reuters) – Support for Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative alliance and her left-wing Social Democrat (SPD) partners has set a record for such a government, according to a poll released on Sunday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech at a financial conference at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Germany on September 4, 2018. REUTERS / Kai Pfaffenbach
The two largest and most established parties in Germany had a hot summer and collapsed due to the upsurge of immigration following violent right-wing demonstrations in the city of Chemnitz after the deadly attack on a German. .
Pollster Emnid's survey for the weekly Bild am Sonntag supported Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian allies, the Christian Social Union (CSU), down one point to 29% .
In the federal election last September, the CDU / CSU bloc won 32.9% of the vote.
The survey increased SPD support by two points to 17%. In the last election, the SPD won 20.5% of the vote.
Their combined score of 46% was the lowest of any CDU / CSU / SPD coalition – a combination that also held power in 2005-09 and 2013-17 – in Emnid's poll for Bild am Sonntag. The pollster polled 2,472 voters between August 30 and September 5.
Support for the anti-immigration alternative for Germany (AfD) remained unchanged from the previous week at 15%, according to the survey. The far left Linke won a point at 10%. Green ecologists remained unchanged at 14% and Free Business Democrats (FDP) remained at 9%.
Support to other parties increased by two points to 6%.
Written by Paul Carrel; Edited by Kevin Liffey
