Slight losses for Chancellor Friedrich Merz 's conservative bloc of Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU), and slight gains for their coalition partner, the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) . These are the key findings of the ARD-Deutschlandtrend opinion poll conducted by the infratest-dimap institute, which surveyed around 1,300 representative voters between February 2 and 4. The majority of respondents deplore inequality in German society; they also see the gap