The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) leads the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) by almost 10 points in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern four months before voters go to the polls in the north-eastern state, a poll found on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The survey by polling institute Infratest dimap, commissioned by public broadcaster NDR, found the AfD on 36%, up by one percentage point since January.<\/p>\n
Lagging in second place are the SPD, the governing party in the state under Premier Manuela Schwesig, on 27%, a rise of two points from the last poll.<\/p>\n
The regional chapter of the party appears to be bucking the nationwide trend of a decline in support for the SPD, which is in coalition with Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives at the national level.<\/p>\n
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, known for its Baltic coastline and picturesque lake district, is alongside Berlin the last of five German states holding elections this year.<\/p>\n
The vote on September 20 is set to come two weeks after the election in nearby Saxony-Anhalt, where the AfD could gain an unprecedented absolute majority after topping 40% in recent polls.<\/p>\n
The latest survey suggests the anti-immigrant party is unlikely to do so in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, meaning it would likely not form part of the next government in the state as all other mainstream parties refuse to work with the AfD.<\/p>\n
Schwesig’s existing coalition with The Left – a successor to the party that governed communist East Germany – faces a battle to secure enough support for a majority, however, with the latter on 13% of the vote in the latest poll.<\/p>\n
Further back were Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which fell by three percentage points from the last survey to 10%, and the populist BSW party on 5%.<\/p>\n
The Greens were on just 4%, below the 5% threshold needed to enter parliament under German electoral law.<\/p>\n
For the survey, a total of 1,153 eligible voters in the state were interviewed between May 7-11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) leads the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) by almost 10 points in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[233,40486,249,40488,40487,2281,5092],"class_list":{"0":"post-69849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-friedrich-merz","8":"tag-friedrich-merz","9":"tag-german-state","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-manuela-schwesig","12":"tag-mecklenburg-vorpommern","13":"tag-social-democrats","14":"tag-spd"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116568891419935875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}