Saxony will vote in exactly one year. All signs are currently pointing to the right: According to surveys commissioned by local newspapers, the AfD is currently around 35 percent.
A year before the state elections on September 1, 2024, the AfD is the strongest force in Saxony according to an election poll. In the survey commissioned by the three major Saxon daily newspapers “Freie Presse”, “Leipziger Volkszeitung” and “Sächsische Zeitung” from the opinion research institute Insa, the party received 35 percent of the votes, as the “LVZ” reported on Thursday evening.
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Favorable voters in Saxony: AfD in front, CDU in second place, SPD far behind
The CDU follows in second place with 29 percent of the votes. The other parties are far behind in the Sunday question: Nine percent would vote for Die Linke, six percent for the Greens, seven percent for the SPD and five percent for the FDP. 35.9 percent of respondents would rate AfD government participation in Saxony as “very bad”, 22.5 percent as “very good”. In mid-August, 1,500 eligible voters were interviewed by telephone and online.
Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU), who has governed Saxony with the Greens and the SPD since 2019, would no longer have a majority for his coalition with these results. Insa managing director Hermann Binkert said that only the CDU, AfD and leftists could currently count on entering the state parliament. The Greens, SPD and FDP would clear the five percent hurdle in the Sunday question, but are each below five percent when it comes to the safe votes.
Prime Minister Kretschmer nevertheless popular
While a majority of those surveyed (53 percent) are dissatisfied with the work of the state government, Prime Minister Kretschmer does comparatively well. 51 percent are satisfied with it, 13 percent of them even very. The older ones, in particular, rate his work positively.
“Of course we are happy about the great response. At the same time, we humbly acknowledge the overwhelming trust in our work,” said Jörg Urban, AfD chairman in Saxony, of the “LVZ”. “Now it’s time to roll up our sleeves for a year so that the AfD becomes the strongest force in Saxony,” he added.
Source: Stern
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