Thursday, April 19, 2018

2019 Brandenburg Election?

I haven't essay much over German state elections for 2019....mostly because they are so 'far' in the future.  Well....Focus brought up a little story today over a 2019 state election....for Brandenburg (on the far east side of Germany).

The election would occur in September of 2019.

There's a new survey done for the state, and it's a bit of a shocker.

Infratest dimap did the polling, and here's the layout:

SPD - 23 percent (lowest point in years)

CDU - sitting mostly where they were six months ago, 23 percent

AfD - anti-immigrant party, sitting at 22 percent

FDP - would fail to meet the five percent requirement

Linke Party - 17 percent

Green Party - 7 percent

If it were to stay this way?  The SPD could pull out a win, but would be heavily dependent on the Greens and Linke Party to build a coalition. 

If the AfD were to gain two or three points?  Well....the problem of a coalition exists, and so far....no one will suggest they'd consider a partnership with them.

All of this however....goes to the internal problem in Germany that both the SPD and CDU have lost a good bit of public support and it's hurting them in regional contests. 

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