SPD leads in opinion poll on the Saarland election
Created: 2022-01-28Updated: 2022-01-28 15:11
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Two months before the state elections in Saarland, the SPD is five percentage points ahead of Prime Minister Tobias Hans' CDU, according to a survey published on Friday.
According to the survey by the opinion research institute INSA on behalf of the "Bild" newspaper, the SPD can count on 35 percent of the votes on March 27, the CDU with 30 percent.
Saarbrücken - The survey sees the Greens almost equal with 8 percent and the left and AfD with 7 percent each.
However, the right-wing party has to compete without a state list after internal disputes.
For the FDP, the INSA pollsters predicted 6 percent and thus the re-entry into the state parliament.
All other parties are expected to receive 7 percent of the votes.
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Mathematically, with such a result, another coalition of SPD and CDU would be possible, but then under the leadership of the Social Democrats.
A traffic light coalition of SPD, Greens and FDP as well as Red-Green-Red could also get a parliamentary majority.
1002 eligible voters in Saarland were surveyed.
INSA reported the statistical error tolerance as plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
In the state elections in March 2017, the CDU received 40.7 percent of the votes, the SPD received 29.6 percent.
12.8 percent of voters voted for the left.
The AfD received 6.2 percent.
Greens (4.0) and FDP (3.3) missed the jump over the five percent hurdle.
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