CDU and Giffey’s SPD tied in front in new survey
Jarasch vs. Giffey – “There will be a Blame Game: Who is more to blame?”
Environment Senator Bettina Jarasch presented the Greens’ campaign for the repeat election to the Berlin House of Representatives. Columnist Jan Fleischhauer says about the top candidate Jarasch and the governing mayor Giffey (SPD) that they act as if they had previously been in the opposition.
Franziska Giffey is catching up: The SPD was last in polls for the Berlin election, in a new one it pushes itself back to the CDU. But the Greens are still in the running. February’s re-election could be a close race.
Rand seven weeks before the repeat elections to the Berlin House of Representatives, a new survey puts the SPD back in first place for the first time in six months. In the Berlin trend of the opinion research institute Insa on behalf of “picture“ the Social Democrats of Prime Minister Franziska Giffey come to 21 percent, as does the CDU. The Greens follow closely behind with 20 percent. According to the survey, the left is 12 percent, the AfD 10 percent and the FDP 6 percent.
Most recently, the SPD always ranked second or third in surveys by various institutes, with the CDU and Greens ahead. The new survey published on Wednesday evening shows that the three parties are in a neck-and-neck race and that the election campaign remains very exciting. The currently governing red-green-red coalition would therefore have a very clear majority of 53 percent. But other alliances involving the CDU and FDP would also be mathematically possible.
On November 16, the Constitutional Court ruled that the elections to the House of Representatives and the twelve district councils were invalid due to “serious systemic deficiencies” and many electoral errors. The date for the re-election is February 12.
Recently there had been harsh criticism of Berlin’s Governing Mayor Giffey. CSU General Secretary Martin Huber has the SPD politician in one Interview with the daily mirror described as “ungrateful and unabashed”.
Giffey had previously accused other countries of envy in an interview. Berlin recently decided on a three-billion-euro relief package, including a 29-euro ticket for everyone, protection against dismissal for tenants and an extra energy allowance. The former CDU General Secretary Peter Tauber then wrote: “The Hessians will certainly be happy to pay for that.” Berlin is the largest recipient in the state financial equalization. Berlin’s mayor considers this to be resentment: “Sounds like envy of Berlin! Hesse could have launched such a relief package,” said Giffey
For the representative survey, 1000 Berliners were interviewed online from December 12th to 19th. According to Insa, the maximum error tolerance is +/- 3.1 percentage points.
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