Brandenburg Poll Shows AfD Support Surging to 32%

Is Germany waking up? These polling numbers from Brandenburg, the State previously known as Prussia, would indicate the answer is yes.

From The European Conservative

By Robert Semonsen

AfD polls 12 percentage points ahead of the SPD, which has ruled Brandenburg for the past 30 years.

With almost exactly a year to go until Germans head to the ballot boxes in Brandenburg to elect a new state parliament, the conservative, anti-globalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is, for the first time, the strongest political force, with nearly one in three voters supporting the party.

If the vote were held today, the AfD would garner 32% of the northeastern German state’s vote, 12% and 14% ahead of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), which has ruled the state for three decades, and the second place CDU, respectively, a new opinion survey by research firm Infratest-Dimap has revealed. 

This marks the AfD’s all-time highest polling result in the state of Brandenburg, which surrounds the national capital and city-state of Berlin, and represents a 9% increase for the conservative-right party compared to the previous survey conducted in April. At the moment, the only state the AfD is performing better in is Saxony, where it enjoys a support level of 39%, according to the latest polling data. 

While AfD’s popularity has surged, each party in the ruling ‘Kenya Coalition’ has witnessed its support fall, with the SPD, CDU, and Greens losing 2%, 5%, and 1%, respectively. Collectively, the Kenya Coalition partners would receive just 46% of the vote, well short of a majority—and the same as the three opposition parties in the state parliament: AfD, Free Voters/BVB, and the Left. 

According to the numbers, 57% of respondents voiced dissatisfaction with the current state government, with just 38% expressing satisfaction.

The survey also revealed that nearly four of ten eligible voters in Brandenburg (38%) have indicated that they would not object to the AfD participating in the government in Potsdam following next year’s election. Not surprisingly, a near-unanimous 92% of respondents who identified as AfD supporters shared this perspective.

Meanwhile, well over one-third of BVB/Free Voters supporters (37%), one in four CDU supporters (24%), and one in five Left party supporters (21%) can envision a state government that includes the AfD as a coalition partner, marking a clear shift in mass public opinion toward the conservative-right party.

Lastly, the poll found that a new political party led by the anti-woke, pro-worker politician Sahra Wagenknecht, if established, would have the approval of 44% of Brandenburg residents.

Among AfD supporters, 57% expressed a favorable opinion of a Wagenknecht-led party, while 54% and 53% of BVB/Free Voters and Left party supporters, respectively, felt the same way.

As The European Conservative previously reported, Wagenknecht, days ago, strongly signaled that the possibility of her forming a new anti-immigration, anti-war, left-wing party is a real one.