Sahra Wagenknecht is controversial.
According to a recent survey, however, she would get a lot of votes for her own party - most of it from the AfD.
According to a survey by the opinion research company Kantar, up to 19 percent of those questioned would vote for a party led by left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht.
In a survey for
Focus
, this proportion of respondents said they could imagine voting for a party headed by Wagenknecht, the magazine reported on Thursday.
The greatest sympathy for a Wagenknecht party is therefore among AfD supporters: According to the survey, 60 percent can imagine making a corresponding cross on the ballot paper.
It is 50 percent for supporters of the left, 26 percent for supporters of the FDP and 16 percent for supporters of the CDU/CSU.
Twelve percent of SPD supporters would also find a Wagenknecht party attractive.
The Green supporters are only three percent.
Survey: Wagenknecht party would get encouragement
Kantar interviewed a total of 1,012 people for the survey.
For months, the former leader of the left-wing parliamentary group, Wagenknecht, has been causing unrest in the left with her statements about the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine.
In September, in the Bundestag, she described the Western sanctions against Russia as an "unprecedented economic war" and was criticized by the party leadership.
Wagenknecht also has passionate supporters on the left.
In the fall, she suggested founding a new party.
Recently, Wagenknecht mobilized together with the publicist Alice Schwarzer for a peace rally in Berlin.
An underlying petition, also signed by leading AfD politicians, called for an end to Western arms sales to Ukraine.
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Sahra Wagenknecht (Die Linke, l), politician, and Alice Schwarzer, women's rights activist, are standing in the Rheinauhafen on the Rhine.
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Wagenknecht triggers outrage in Hart but fair
In the ARD program
Hart aber fair,
the controversial left-wing politician Wagenknecht caused further outrage.
The show on Monday February 27, 2023 showed the fate of a raped Ukrainian woman.
Wagenknecht then said in a battle of words with the Green politician Katrin Göring-Eckardt that such attacks were "horrible and horrible" and then added: "It's part of the war, and it's not just like this in this war.
Wars are always associated with war crimes.” Goering-Eckardt loudly disagreed.
(mse with material from the news agency afp)
List of rubrics: © Rolf Vennenbernd/dpa/archive image