Social Democrats strongest political force : SPD clearly outpaces Union in more polls

Sven Lemkemeyer 7 hrs ago. | SPD with Olaf Scholz makes strong gains in latest election polls. The Union with candidate Armin Laschet, on the other hand, is not coming out of its slump. The SPD's candidate for chancellor: Olaf Scholz.© Photo: Imago Images/Photothek/Floarian Gärtner The SPD's candidate for chancellor: Olaf Scholz. The SPD with its candidate for chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is clearly ahead of the Union in further polls. If federal elections were held next Sunday, the Social Democrats would have 25 percent, the CDU/CSU 21 percent and the Greens 19 percent. The FDP and AfD each score eleven percent and the Left Party six percent. This is the result of a representative survey conducted by the opinion research institute Kantar on behalf of the magazine "Focus". According to the data, it is the first time that the SPD is ahead of the Union in this survey. For the SPD this means a gain of two percentage points, for the Union a loss of two percentage points compared to the previous week. The Greens have gained one percentage point. The FDP lost one percentage point, while the AfD and Left Party remained unchanged. According to this result, a Jamaica coalition of the CDU/CSU, the Greens and the FDP would be just as possible as a German coalition (CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP), a traffic light consisting of the SPD, the Greens and the FDP, and Red-Green-Red. A representative poll by Infratest Dimap for ARD's Deutschlandtrend, which was published on Thursday, also sees the SPD as the strongest political force. Here, the CDU/CSU come in at 20 percent of the vote in the Sunday poll (down seven compared to the beginning of August). The SPD reaches 25 percent (up seven). The Greens lose three percentage points here compared to the previous month and would be the third strongest force with currently 16 percent. The AfD would be at twelve percent (up two), while the FDP would improve by one point to 13 percent. The Left Party would remain unchanged at six percent. Before Kantar and Infratest Dimap, other polls had also seen the SPD ahead of the CDU/CSU. The Insa polling institute put the SPD at 24 percent over the weekend, with the CDU/CSU at 21 percent. YouGov recently put the Social Democrats at 24 percent, the CDU/CSU at 22 percent. The Forsa trend barometer for RTL and NTV also recently saw the CDU/CSU at 22 percent, the SPD at 23 percent. In Friday's political barometer by ZDF and Tagesspiegel, the SPD and the CDU/CSU were tied at 22 percent each. Green Party candidate for chancellor Annalena Baerbock made it clear that she sees the SPD as her preferred partner. "I'm running to lead the next federal government in terms of content, but also in terms of personnel. And in terms of partners: preferably with the SPD," Baerbock told the "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger" newspaper. Baerbock spoke of a "directional election." The coming government is "the last one that can still have a relevant influence on the development of global warming" with its decisions. The Green Party candidate for chancellor called for investments in daycare centers, schools, hospitals, swimming pools and sports clubs. "Otherwise, these places of togetherness will crumble for us," she said. The co-chairwoman of the Green Party views a government alliance with the Left Party with the greatest skepticism because of its foreign policy. "The next federal government must finally pursue an active, pro-European foreign policy again," Baerbock said. For that, she said, a coalition is needed "in which all government parties are fully behind European foreign policy responsibility." Klingbeil considers "fear-mongering of the Union" unsuccessful SPD Secretary-General Lars Klingbeil criticized the Union's warnings against a left-wing alliance. He told the "Augsburger Allgemeine" newspaper, "Armin Laschet has long since stopped fighting for the future of the country, but only for his own future." Klingbeil stressed that people know "that Olaf Scholz stands for seriousness and leadership and that they can rely on him." "The Union's fear-mongering does not catch on." Commenting on statements by CDU Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) against government participation by the Left Party, Klingbeil said, "That the chancellor is dutifully standing by her own party was expected and really comes as no surprise." As reported by "Der Spiegel," Laschet plans to present an eight-member campaign team this Friday. However, according to the report, it is not yet known who specifically belongs to the "future team" that is to advise Laschet. According to the report, the members are to make more public appearances in the final weeks of the election campaign. Last Monday, Laschet had for the first time concretely linked a central election campaign issue with heads. Four weeks before the federal election, the CDU chairman had the two members of the Bundestag Andreas Jung and Thomas Heilmann, as well as the junior politician Wiebke Winter, explain details of an energy paper