Populists Pull Ahead of Ruling Socialists in Brandenburg Polls
The new figures by polling institute Forsa show the AfD support at one-in-five voters. SPD, who presently enjoy power in the state were knocked down to second place with 19 percent. The poll results could forecast future gains in the upcoming September 24th federal election, Die Welt reports.
The AfD are now second only to the Christian Democratic Union, the party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who scored 30 percent in the poll. The libertarian Free Democratic Party (FDP) scored 5 percent of the vote, the hard-left Die Linke were at 16 percent and the Green party at 6 percent.
The results indicate a change for the Brandenburg parliament which currently has a coalition of the SPD and the left-wing Die Linke in power and the polls suggest that they would not be able to form another coalition even if they included the Greens, as was the case in the recent Berlin elections.
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