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To Thuringia: Nationwide survey shock for the FDP - another party is noticeably sinking

2020-02-16T18:53:48.936Z


After the debacle in the Thuringian election, the FDP has to accept another setback. The party now fell significantly in a poll.


After the debacle in the Thuringian election, the FDP has to accept another setback. The party now fell significantly in a poll.

  • After the scandal at the Thuringian election, it sets the next low blow for the FDP.
  • Nationwide FDP members reacted with numerous party withdrawals.
  • Now the FDP dropped to six percentage points in a survey.

After the uproar in the election of the Prime Minister in Thuringia, there is now another setback for the FDP - the liberals are apparently losing support nationwide. The party is sagging in a new poll.

FDP in poll low: Election scandal from Thuringia costs three percentage points

The liberals are no longer very popular with voters and are increasingly losing support. This emerges from a survey of the RTL / n-tv trend barometer of the Forsa Institute, which was published on the weekend. According to her, the Lindner party would currently only receive six percent of the vote.

Sunday question about the Bundestag election • Forsa for RTL / n-tv: CDU / CSU 27% | GREEN 24% | SPD 14% | AfD 11% | THE LEFT 10% | FDP 6% | Other 8%
➤ Overview: https://t.co/Gzilw3J3L9
➤ History: https://t.co/QebW8kam1g pic.twitter.com/381eoKIH53

- Wahlrecht.de (@Wahlrecht_de) February 15, 2020

In January and February, the FDP was still eight to nine percent, the scandal in the prime minister election now threw it back by three percentage points. Nationwide, the FDP had been in trouble because together with the AfD they had voted for the FDP candidate Thomas Kemmerich, who resigned from office a short time later. As a result, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer resigned as CDU chairman, and FDP chairman Christian Lindner was given confidence in a special session.

FDP in survey low: The scandal is followed by nationwide wave of withdrawals - AfD also loses in the survey

The immediate result of the Thuringian election was a nationwide wave of withdrawals from the party. Around 90 people left the FDP in Hesse and Bavaria, and at the same time there were comparatively few applications for membership. The FDP's election forecasts are nevertheless devastating.

The largest losses in the survey of the RTL / n-tv trend barometer recorded alongside the FDP the AfD, which fell from eleven to nine percent. According to the survey, black-green would receive a majority of 51 percent if a new election was held. Green-red-red would also be possible at 48 percent if several small parties did not clear the five percent hurdle and thus did not reach parliament.

Since Dorothee Bär had congratulated the short-term prime minister of Thuringia on Twitter, FC Bayern fans shot against Bär.


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List of rubric lists: © dpa / Carsten Koall

Source: merkur

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