ARD Poll: Social Democrats with Alma Schultz (+ 8%), losses 3% for Merkel's Christian Democrats

Well ahead of the Social Democrat former president of the European Parliament Martin Schulz against christianodimokratissas Chancellor Angela Merkel shows poll conducted for the first public German broadcaster ARD network: 50% of voters would vote for the Social Democrat candidate and only 34% in the current Chancellor Merkel if the Chancellor elected directly by the people.

In a poll conducted by the Infratest Dimap Institute also recorded a sharp rise of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) by 8 percentage points compared to the previous month and the Social Democrats thus reach 28%, the highest proportion in the current parliamentary term. The Christian Democratic (CDU) and Christianokoinoniko (CSU) party record losses of around 3% and their share in total is reduced to 34%.

Similar trends recorded by the institute Insa poll on behalf of Stern magazine and the private RTL television network. In voting intentions Social Democrats reach 27%, one percentage point higher than it in January.

According to the poll of ARD, the parties of the Left (Die Linke) and Green (Gr? Ne) receive 8% each (ie -1% for both compared to the previous month). The extreme right-populist-anti-European party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has lost 3% and would receive 12% if you were elections next Sunday, while the Liberals (FDP) now reach 6% (+ 1%) and entered the Parliament (5% threshold).

Polls show that after the announcement of the candidacy of Martin Schulz blowing a wind of change in Germany, but a victory for the SPD in the election is anything but easy it is. Thus the ARD poll, 50% of respondents want a Social Democratic government, while only 39% is in favor of a government under Christian Democratic leadership.