For a long time, Sahra Wagenknecht has been flirting with founding her own party away from the left. According to a current survey, it would overtake all other parties in Thuringia from the start.
According to a survey, a party of the former left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht could get a lot of encouragement in Thuringia and even become the strongest force. According to an Insa survey, a Wagenknecht party is currently ahead in the Free State with 25 percent, as the Thuringian newspapers of the Funke media group reported on Thursday.
Thuringia: “Sahra Wagenknecht Party” would be the strongest force
Such a party would put the Thuringian AfD, led by Björn Höcke, in second place, with only 22 percent. Wagenknecht had fallen out with the left-wing party leadership around the chairmen Janine Wissler and Martin Schirdewan and is considering founding his own party.
According to the Insa survey, the left, to which Wagenknecht still belongs, would only reach 18 percent in Thuringia if the prominent politician were to get involved with her own party in the state elections next year. But the CDU would also lose popularity and would only get 16 percent. The SPD, on the other hand, would remain relatively stable at 9 percent. Even with the Greens, a value of 5 percent would not change much. The FDP would no longer make it into parliament with 3 percent.
AfD co-boss Stefan Möller admitted to the “Thüringer Allgemeine” that a Wagenknecht party would probably cost the AfD votes. “That would affect us,” he told the newspaper. “But I don’t believe in a real burglary.” In addition, there would be “one more option” for the AfD. “When I look at Wagenknecht’s positions, a partnership with her seems the most likely to me.
For the evaluation, 1000 adult Thuringians were asked how they would vote if there were state elections next Sunday and there was a “Wagenknecht party”.
Source: Stern
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