ALMOST AS STRONG AS THE CDUAfD is catching up in the next federal state
The AfD is getting stronger in the east!
The latest figures from the opinion research institute INSA show that if there were state elections in Saxony-Anhalt next Sunday, the right-wing party would now have 29 percent there!
That is three percentage points more than in the last survey in March, the highest value ever measured for the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt! The Union, on the other hand, loses four percentage points and only gets 31 percent. SPD (9 percent, +1), Left (9 percent, -2), FDP (6 percent, +/- 0) and Greens (6 percent, -1) basically no longer play a role.
It is bitter news for Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (69, CDU). In the last state election in 2021, he achieved a really strong result, ending up 16 percentage points ahead of the AfD, although some forecasts predicted a neck-and-neck race.
His goal: to keep the center stable, said Haseloff in an interview with BILD. Haseloff cannot ignore the fact that the AfD is attacking him in the middle of his last legislative period.
INSA boss Hermann Binkert sees the blame in federal politics: "The federal trend is having an even clearer effect in Saxony-Anhalt. The three Berlin traffic light parties only convince one in five voters here. The CDU and AfD are each at least 20 percentage points ahead of the other four parties represented in Parliament.”
The AfD in Saxony-Anhalt can be located on the far right. Country chief Martin Reichardt (53) used to be with the Republicans and is considered a loyal supporter of the extremist Björn Höcke (51).