AfD Leads 2 German State Polls, Nears 42% in Saxony-Anhalt
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Updated · Jacobin magazine · Aug 17
AfD Leads 2 German State Polls, Nears 42% in Saxony-Anhalt
3 articles · Updated · Jacobin magazine · Aug 17
Summary
Around 2 million voters in Saxony-Anhalt will vote on Sept. 6 with AfD polling 40% to 42% there, close to an outright majority that could let it govern alone.
Two weeks later, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin vote; AfD also leads in the former and runs second in Berlin, where it is polling in the high teens and is competitive for first place.
That surge is testing Germany’s postwar refusal to govern with the far right, because no far-right party has ruled any German state since 1945.
AfD’s rise comes despite several eastern branches being formally classified by domestic intelligence agencies as confirmed right-wing extremist, and it has also opened its widest-ever national lead over Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU.