New elections 2025: Union ensures a surprise in the chancellor fight

New elections 2025: Union ensures a surprise in the chancellor fight

The political waves in Germany are high: the Bundestag election is brought forward and is now taking place on February 23, 2025 after the traffic light coalition broke on November 6th. According to the lost question of trust by Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz on December 16, it is now at the Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to decide on December 27 whether the Bundestag will be dissolved. The Union parties CDU and CSU are currently clearly leading in the surveys, with over 30 percent of the votes, such as the Süddeutsche Zeitung

The location is tense: the SPD stumbles below 15 percent and the Greens make it just 11 to 14 percent. The FDP is on the abyss with only five percent and could not make it back to the Bundestag. In an exciting election campaign, the alternative for Germany (AfD) will end up in second place with more than 20 percent before the SPD. The pressure on the intended government formation is growing, while many citizens in the current economic crisis of the Union trust more competence than the ruling parties, as can be seen from the surveys.

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The race for the Chancellery is more intensive: Friedrich Merz from the CDU is rejected by many younger voters and has to measure itself against the Greens with Olaf Scholz from the SPD and Robert Habeck. Both are comparable in the surveys. It becomes interesting how the fracture of the traffic light coalition will influence the future distribution of votes. This also has an impact on the popularity of the Chancellor candidates. Current surveys show that all three candidates are negatively evaluated by the citizens, which increases the uncertainty about the outcome of the election.

The challenges are great: almost a third of those surveyed sees the economic situation as the most pressing problem. Topics such as migration, energy supply and inflation are also often mentioned. All parties are under pressure to present solutions that address the will to voters. While the Union is considered a problem solver in the survey, the question arises whether it can implement this trust in the election, since new political forces such as the alliance of Sahra Wagenknecht are becoming more important.

The surveys should be representative of the electorate, whereby various factors such as age, gender and education are taken into account in order to obtain a realistic picture, so ZDF . The excitement for the upcoming elections and the uncertainty about the outcome give hope for an exciting February.