The AfD is flying high – and is getting closer and closer to the Union in polls. Nevertheless, the majority of Germans are against a coalition with the party.
In the current Insa survey, the AfD has reached a new record: With 21 percent, the party is now 4.5 percentage points behind the first-placed Union (25.5 percent). That is 0.5 percentage points more than in the previous opinion trend for “Bild”.
According to the survey, the SPD comes to 19 percent (-0.5 percent), the Greens to 14.5 percent (+1), and the FDP remains at 6.5 percent. Overall, the traffic light would come to 40 percent if there were federal elections next Sunday. The left increases 0.5 points to five percent.
“Only two four-party alliances lead to majorities”
With these values, the only two possible government options would be a Germany coalition of CDU/CSU, SPD and FDP, which would get 51 percent of the vote, and a Jamaica coalition of Union, Greens and FDP with 46.5 percent, it said. Insa boss Hermann Binkert told the newspaper: “Only two four-party alliances lead to majorities.” The Union of CDU and CSU remains the strongest force, but is being challenged by the AfD. The statics of the political landscape in Germany are changing. “However, it would not be possible to govern without and against the Union parties at the moment,” said Binkert.
Despite good poll numbers for the AfD, three out of four citizens are against the right-wing party coming to power in a coalition. A Forsa poll for “Stern” published on Tuesday showed that 73 percent of those eligible to vote think it’s right that the other parties rule out alliances with the AfD. 22 percent see it differently. Five percent therefore have no opinion.
In East Germany, the result is not quite as clear: there, only 60 percent support the exclusion of coalitions, 34 percent have a different opinion. 95 percent of potential AfD voters themselves think that the other parties should accept the rejection of joint governments.
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First AfD district administrator elected
The AfD is at a nationwide poll high – the first effects can be seen: In Thuringia, the first AfD district administrator in Germany, Robert Stuhlmann, started work on Monday. He was elected in a runoff on June 25, which caused some outrage among the other parties. The Thuringian AfD is classified and observed by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a secured right-wing extremist.
In the neighboring state of Saxony-Anhalt, an AfD candidate was also elected to a municipal office for the first time on Sunday: In the small town of Raguhn-Jeßnitz, 42-year-old Hannes Loth won the election for full-time mayor (read more here).
