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Election posters of the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt
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The CDU owes its success in the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt above all to the 60 plus generation - the younger generation, on the other hand, mainly voted AfD.
According to data from the Wahlen research group, the AfD is the strongest force among the under-30s, as well as among the 30 to 44-year-olds.
Among the youngest, 20 percent voted AfD, only 17 percent CDU.
Among the 30 to 44 year olds, 30 percent voted for the AfD and 27 percent for the CDU.
Among the over-60s, on the other hand, the CDU was particularly successful with 44 percent, only 18 percent opted for the AfD.
The numbers of the research group Elections are based on a telephone survey among 1471 randomly selected eligible voters in Saxony-Anhalt in the week before the election and on the survey of 15,788 voters on election day.
In the state elections in 2016, 29 percent of the under-30s voted for the AfD - nine percentage points more than in the current survey.
Instead, the greens are growing among the youngest.
Five years ago, nine percent of voters in the U30 group voted for the Greens; now it is 13 percent.
Nevertheless: The AfD is most popular with people who have never experienced the GDR - or only as children.
Broken down by gender, there are also big differences in the AfD electorate: Right-wing populists reach 18 percent of women and 29 percent of men.
Most recently, the Federal Government’s commissioner for the East, Marco Wanderwitz (CDU), was critical of AfD voters in the East - and related them to the GDR's past.
Wanderwitz had spoken in a podcast of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” that people in East Germany had been partially “socialized in a form of dictatorship” and had not arrived in democracy.
He had not only received criticism from within the party for this.
mrc / dpa
