As of: February 17, 2024, 4:07 p.m
By: Yekaterina Jalunina
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Support for the right-wing AfD party continues to decline.
The result in the latest survey is four percentage points worse than in January.
Berlin - The current Sunday trend, published by the opinion research institute
INSA
on behalf of the
Bild
newspaper, shows important shifts in Germany's political landscape: If there were a federal election next Sunday, the AfD would do significantly worse than before.
“Against the Right”: Demos against right-wing extremism set an example
The AfD is in an ambivalent situation: According to media reports, the party is benefiting from the unpopularity of the traffic light coalition made up of the SPD, the Greens and the FDP, but is still losing popularity, which can be attributed to the events of the last few weeks.
Since the research platform
Correctiv
reported on a meeting between AfD and Union members with the Austrian right-wing extremist Martin Sellner in January, large “against the right” demonstrations have been taking place in many German cities.
The demonstrations attract thousands of people almost every weekend.
Citizens demonstrate against right-wing extremism on Reunification Square.
© Roberto Pfeil/dpa
AfD loses support nationwide: But leads in East German polls
In nationwide surveys, the AfD has been in second place behind the Christian Democrats since last summer.
But in the latest INSA survey, the party received its worst result since June 2023 at 19 percent. At the state level, however, the trend continues: it is even leading, particularly in the eastern German states of Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg, where state elections are due this year the surveys, with over 30 percent each.
This pattern is also evident in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where the right-wing populist party is politically dominant.
With the new result, the AfD has recorded a decline of one percentage point compared to the previous week and even a remarkable four percentage points since January.
At the same time, according to the INSA survey, the Union has recorded an increase of one percentage point and now has 31 percent approval.
The lead over the AfD is thus expanded.
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The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution continues to have the AfD in its sights.
North Rhine-Westphalia's CDU Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst describes it as a "Nazi party".
Some politicians in the traffic light coalition are even calling for a ban on the AfD - the Social Democratic Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser recently said that she could “imagine” that.
Such a step would be the “sharpest sword” available, Faeser told
SWR
.
Trending parties: SPD and FDP lose, Greens remain stable
While the SPD suffered a loss of one percentage point in the new INSA survey and ended up at 14 percent, the Greens remained stable at 13 percent.
The new alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) can improve by one point to 8 percent.
The FDP, on the other hand, suffered another loss and, with 4 percent, would not make it into the Bundestag for the fourth time in a row.
The survey was conducted between February 12 and 16, 2024, with a margin of error of +/- 2.9 percentage points.
1203 people were surveyed by telephone and online panel.
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