Merkel Bloc Gains to 32% in Poll as Coalition Partner FDP Unchanged at 5%

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and their Christian Social Union affiliates gained a point in a monthly ARD Television poll, the second survey this week to show a boost for the parties.

Merkel’s CDU rose to 32 percent in the Infratest Dimap poll for ARD. Support for the Free Democrats, Merkel’s junior allies, was unchanged 5 percent, bringing the coalition tally to 37 percent.

The Social Democrats, the biggest opposition party, dropped a point to 30 percent. The Greens and the Left Party were unchanged at 17 percent and 10 percent, respectively. Merkel’s bloc and the FDP both added a point in a weekly Forsa GmbH poll Sept. 1, to a combined 37 percent, the most since June.

At 81 percent in September, most Germans were dissatisfied with Merkel’s coalition. In August, 83 percent gave Merkel’s policy scorecard a thumbs down.

Infratest polled 2006 people between Aug. 30 and Sept. 1. The survey has a margin of error of between 1 and 2.2 percentage points.

To contact the reporter on this story: Brian Parkin in Berlin at bparkin@bloomberg.net

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