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AfD in the east from first to third place in a year
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The last founding president wants to leave AfD
With Bernd Lucke and Frauke Petry he had founded the AfD, now Konrad Adam turns his back on the party. With this, the last founding president leaves the party. The reason for his decision: the influence of the right has grown steadily.
While the AfD in East Germany was still at 24 percent in 2019, one percentage point ahead of the CDU, it is now only 18 percent. In the east, it is just behind the left and clearly behind the CDU. At the national level, the Union remains by far the most powerful force.
northAfter numerous internal disputes, according to a poll, the AfD in East Germany has lost a great deal of approval and has gone from first to third place in a year.
While the AfD was here in calendar week 40 of 2019 in the Kantar opinion research institute Sunday trend for “Bild am Sonntag” at 24 percent and thus one percentage point ahead of the CDU , now it only reaches 18 percent. In the east, it is just behind the left (19 percent) and far behind the CDU (30 percent). The SPD has 13 percent in the east, the Greens 9 percent, the FDP 5 percent, and the other parties 6 percent.
Last week, the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag expelled its former press spokesman Christian Lüth after reports of inhumane comments about migrants in a television documentary.
In May, the federal executive of the AfD revoked the membership of the former president of the state of Brandenburg, Andreas Kalbitz, and justified it with previous contacts in the right-wing extremist milieu.
Nationally, according to the poll, the Union is losing one point, but it is still by far the strongest force at 35 percent, the Left Party gains one point and now reaches 9 percent. All other parties remain at the level of the previous week: The Greens with 18 percent, the SPD with 16 percent, the AfD with 11 percent, the FDP with 6 percent and the other parties with 5 percent. For the survey, Kantar interviewed 2,397 people.
