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After Annalena Baerbock and Armin Laschet were nominated as the top candidates of their parties for the upcoming federal election, the political mood in Germany has changed significantly.
The Union fell compared to the previous week in the RTL / Trendbarometer by seven percentage points to 21 percent.
The Greens gained five percentage points and are now in first place with 28 percent, ahead of the CDU / CSU.
The SPD loses two percentage points and comes to 13 percent.
The FDP wins two, the Left and the other smaller parties each gain one percentage point.
Only with the AfD nothing changes.
If the Bundestag election were now, the parties could expect the following results: CDU / CSU 21 percent (Bundestag election 32.9%), SPD 13 percent (20.5%), FDP 12 percent (10.7%), Greens 28 percent ( 8.9%), Left 7 percent (9.2%), AfD 11 percent (12.6%).
Eight percent would choose one of the other parties (5.2%).
The majority would have liked Söder as a candidate
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54 percent of Germans think it is a good decision that Annalena Baerbock became candidate for Chancellor of the Greens.
23 percent would have found it better if Robert Habeck had become the top candidate.
Of the supporters of the Greens, 79 percent welcomed Baerbock's nomination.
Only 32 percent of those questioned rated it positive that the majority of the CDU federal executive board voted in favor of Armin Laschet as the Union's candidate for chancellor.
Markus Söder would have preferred 47 percent.
Of the Union supporters, a clear majority does not consider the decision in favor of Laschet to be a good one: 58 percent of the CDU supporters and 88 percent of the CSU supporters would have preferred Söder.
Only five percent of CSU supporters think it's good that Laschet is leading the Union in the election campaign.
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Most German citizens also rate the way in which Armin Laschet was chosen as candidate for chancellor of the Union as negative. 66 percent of those questioned would have found a procedure "in which the CSU would have been involved" better. 26 percent think it is correct that the CDU executive committee alone decided on Armin Laschet's candidacy for chancellor. Most supporters of the CDU (72%) and the CSU (88%) also see this procedure as critical.
Almost two thirds of German citizens (63%) are convinced that the Union's election chances have worsened due to the nomination of Armin Laschet. Only nine percent believe that the values for the Union with Laschet will improve. The supporters of the CDU (67%) and the CSU (90%) are also skeptical and fear that the prospects for the Union with Laschet at the top have deteriorated. The majority of citizens (74%) also do not believe that the poor poll numbers for Laschet and the Union will improve significantly by election day in September. 17 percent of German citizens are more optimistic.
If the German citizens could elect their chancellor directly, Annalena Baerbock would get more than twice as many votes as Armin Laschet and Olaf Scholz put together immediately after being nominated as the top candidate of the Greens.
It would come to 32 percent, an increase of six percentage points compared to the previous week.
For Laschet and Scholz, 15 percent would each decide - that means a loss of 4 percentage points for the CDU chief and a minus of 2 percentage points for the SPD candidate for chancellor.
The data on party and chancellor preferences were collected by the market and opinion research institute forsa on behalf of Mediengruppe RTL from April 13th to 20th, 2021.
A total of 3,505 people were interviewed, of which 1,502 were interviewed on April 20th.