BSW at ten percent
According to the survey, AfD loses its lead in Saxony-Anhalt
April 19, 2024, 10:45 a.m
Listen to article
This audio version was artificially generated. More info | Send feedback
In East Germany, the AfD is ahead in many surveys. In Saxony-Anhalt, however, it has now suffered a setback and is slipping behind the CDU. In contrast, a new party can achieve a double-digit result straight away.
In a current survey, the AfD lost four percentage points in Saxony-Anhalt. This emerges from a survey by the Insa Institute for the “Bild” newspaper. The AfD was seen at 33 percent in an Insa survey from October and now has 29 percent. The Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), on the other hand, comes to ten percent from a standing start.
Prime Minister Rainer Haseloff’s CDU is now in the lead with an unchanged 32 percent. The AfD is followed by the newly founded BSW with 10 percent, which was asked about for the first time. The SPD is seen in fourth place with an unchanged 8 percent.
The Greens and the Left both get 5 percent each – the Greens do not change, the Left loses 4 percentage points. The FDP follows with 4 percent, as predicted in the last survey. The Liberals would no longer be represented in the state parliament. Forming a government could be complicated with these values.
A thousand eligible voters were interviewed for the survey from April 10th to 17th. While new state parliaments will be elected in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg in the fall, the next election in Saxony-Anhalt will not take place until 2026. In the last state election in 2021, the CDU, with the currently longest-serving Prime Minister in Germany, even achieved 37.1 percent. With the SPD and FDP factions, the CDU forms a Germany coalition in the Magdeburg state parliament.