By Michael Deutschmann
Exactly one year before the state elections in Saxony (September 1, 2024), the AfD is 35 percent in a representative survey, six points ahead of the CDU. It currently comes to 29 percent. The Left (9), the SPD (7), Greens (6) and the FDP follow at a great distance with 5 percent.
This means that the current government coalition of Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (48, CDU) would not have a majority if there were elections on Sunday.
Between August 11 and 22, the opinion research institute INSA asked a total of 1,500 Saxons about their opinion of the state government on behalf of the Leipziger Volkszeitung, Freie Presse and Sächsische Zeitung. According to this, a majority (53 percent) is dissatisfied with their work.
However, Prime Minister Kretschmer has better values. 51 percent are satisfied or very satisfied with its performance. In contrast, the reputation of the federal government among the Saxons was devastating. After all, 78 percent rate their work as bad. At the same time, for a majority of voters, federal politics have a major influence on their voting decisions, according to INSA.
The pollsters also asked how the voters in the Free State would stand on a possible party with the previous left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht at the top. At least 29 percent of those surveyed could imagine making their mark here.