Lower Saxony election: survey - SPD in front, FDP and left must tremble
Created: 09/22/2022, 12:22 p.m
By: Moritz Serif
They are still coalition partners: Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Stephan Weil (left, SPD) and his challenger Bernd Althusmann sat next to each other at the last state parliament session before the election.
© Julian Stratenschulte/dpa
According to a recent survey, Prime Minister Stephan Weil and the SPD remain ahead.
The Greens are far behind.
Hanover – Around two weeks before the Lower Saxony elections, a new survey sees Prime Minister Stephan Weil's SPD ahead.
In the survey by the institute Infratest dimap published by NDR
on Thursday (September 22), the party comes
to 32 percent if elections are held on Sunday.
The CDU around Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister for Economic Affairs Bernd Althusmann reached 28 percent.
The Greens are in third place at 17 percent, with the AfD at nine percent and the FDP at five percent.
Therefore, the Liberals would have to worry about re-entering the state parliament in Hanover.
The Red-Green Party, with which the FDP forms the traffic light coalition at federal level, recently attacked.
The left are between and three and four percent and will probably miss the entry into parliament.
Survey on the Lower Saxony election: SPD and CDU are improving
A new state parliament will be elected in Lower Saxony on October 9th.
The SPD and CDU have governed there together since 2017.
The SPD won the election at the time with 36.9 percent, followed by the CDU with 33.6 percent and the Greens with 8.7 percent.
According to the current NDR survey, 49 percent would vote for Weil in a hypothetical direct election of the prime minister.
His CDU challenger Althusmann would get 27 percent.
The preferred coalition model of those surveyed would be an alliance between the SPD and the Greens, which 40 percent of those entitled to vote would support.
A new coalition of SPD and CDU would be good for 36 percent.
Almost 1,160 eligible voters were interviewed for the survey.
Infratest dimap interviewed her between Thursday last week and Tuesday this week.
Lower Saxony election: turnout could decrease
It is unclear how high the voter turnout will be in the state election.
Will the crisis-ridden period lead to a greater rush to the ballot box, or will people stay at home in larger numbers on election day?
In North Rhine-Westphalia, current crises have had a negative impact in this regard.
"As in North Rhine-Westphalia, the resentment about high prices and the feeling that politics cannot get the problems under control could lead to a high level of abstention," said Forsa boss Güllner of the
Reuters agency.
(mse/afp)
