Poll: majority rejects any cooperation with the AfD

August 9, 2019

legitimate, A majority of voters in Germany rejected according to a survey by a cooperation of the other German parties with the right-wing populist AfD.

58 percent of the respondents were in the on Friday published the ZDF”political barometer” for it. 37 per cent considered the rejection to be wrong. With 59 percent of the respondents in the West are more likely to be against any form of cooperation than respondents in the East (50 percent).

1. September will be chosen in Brandenburg and Saxony, new country day, on 27. October in Thuringia. Saxony’s Prime Minister, Michael Kretschmer (CDU), showed on Thursday a clear edge against the AfD. Also, the CDU-Chairman, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, as well as other leading CDU politicians had already decided against a collaboration with the AfD. In mid-June, the Brandenburg the CDU was the party chief Ingo Senftleben also against a coalition with the AfD in favour of talks, however, are conceivable.

With a view to the elections in three Eastern German States, 69 percent of the respondents expected a deterioration in policy, should be involved in the AfD in one of the state government (West: 72 per cent; East: 57%). 17 percent saw no big difference (Western: 16 per cent; East: 19 percent) and only 9 percent hoped for a better policy (West: 7 per cent; East: 15 percent).

Reuters topics in this article, AfD survey cooperation of the political barometer for Germany, the CDU of Brandenburg, Thuringia, Berlin