AfD reaches new high of 30 percent in Insa survey

In a new survey, the AfD reaches 30 percent nationwide for the first time. This means that the party has gained one percentage point compared to the previous week, as shown by the survey conducted by the Insa Institute for the Bild newspaper. At the same time, the CDU and CSU union loses one point and falls to a new low of just 18 percent. This puts the AfD twelve percentage points ahead of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Union (CDU). A survey by the opinion research institute Forsa for RTL Deutschland sees the AfD at 26 percent and the Union at 19 percent.

In the Insa survey, Merz's approval ratings also remain low: 79 percent of those surveyed expressed dissatisfaction with the work of the Chancellor and that of the federal government as a whole.

The AfD is being monitored nationwide by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a suspected case. Individual state associations are classified as definitely right-wing extremist by the respective state Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

In the current Insa survey of 1,202 respondents, the SPD (unchanged) and the Greens (minus one) are tied at 14 percent. The Left Party remains at ten percent. At four percent each, the BSW and FDP are below the five percent threshold and would not enter the Bundestag.