AfD improves to 34 percent in Thuringia
Without the opportunity to vote for Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party, the AfD gained two percentage points in a new Insa survey for Thuringia, making it the strongest political force in the state. The Greens could fail at the five percent hurdle.
KAlmost ten months before the state elections in Thuringia, the AfD is further expanding its lead according to a current Insa survey. The party, which the state Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Thuringia has classified as definitely right-wing extremist, is included in the survey published on Thursday the Funke Media Thuringia to 34 percent – two percentage points more than in the last survey five weeks earlier. This would make it the strongest force by a large margin. The Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), which is planning to found a new party, was not listed as an option in this survey.
According to the survey in Thuringia, forming a government would continue to be extremely difficult. Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow’s Left only comes third in the survey with 20 percent (minus two percentage points) – behind the CDU, which gained one percentage point and now reaches 22 percent.
Ramelow currently governs Thuringia with an alliance of the Left, the SPD and the Greens. However, his coalition does not have a majority in parliament and is dependent on approval or abstentions in the opposition ranks when passing laws. In the past, the opposition, including votes from the AfD, passed laws against the will of the minority government.
According to the survey in Thuringia, the SPD comes to nine percent (minus one percentage point). On the other hand, the Greens and the FDP have to worry about their return to parliament. Both only achieved four percent in the survey – and would therefore not make it over the five percent hurdle. The Greens have lost two percentage points compared to the beginning of October, while the FDP was already at four percent back then. The other parties together gained two percentage points to seven percent.
For the Insa survey, 1,000 Thuringians aged 18 and over were interviewed between October 30th and November 7th. The error tolerance is +/- 3.1 percentage points.