The old parties keep reshuffling the same chairs while voters keep walking out the door.
AfD climbs to 28 percent in the latest ZDF Politbarometer by Forschungsgruppe Wahlen.
That is the highest number this poll series has ever given them.
CDU/CSU stays flat at 23 percent.
Gap hits five percentage points. Never been this wide in the Politbarometer before.
SPD stuck at 12 percent.
Greens drop to 13 percent.
Left drops to 12 percent.
FDP still at 4 percent under the threshold.
Others at 8 percent.
Current black-red coalition has no majority.
Poll ran July 28 to 30 with 1405 eligible voters phone and online.
70 percent rate Chancellor Merz performance as rather bad. Only 26 percent say rather good.
Same pattern shows in other recent polls. Forsa had AfD at 27 and Union at 21 just days earlier. INSA has seen AfD at 28-29.
Germany: Right wing AfD at record high
In the Sunday poll conducted by the research group Wahlen, the AfD has also extended its lead over the CDU/CSU. The right-wing populists have reached a record high.The AfD has reached its highest level in the ZDF “Politbarometer” poll since the polling series began. In the survey conducted by the research group Wahlen, the party gained one percentage point, rising to 28 percent. The CDU/CSU alliance remains unchanged at 23 percent. The gap between them is therefore five percentage points. The AfD’s lead over the second-strongest party in this poll has never been larger.