In a new survey conducted by the Forsa Institute, Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) is now less popular than the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) in the eastern state of Saxony.
The SPD has suffered a major shock in the German state of Saxony in a new poll conducted by the Forsa Institute. In results that is bound to reverberate across the whole of Germany, the far-right NPD has overtaken the SPD for the first time ever in an opinion poll.
It has been a rough few weeks for state Premier Georg Milbradt. The Christian Democrat prime minister in Saxony has had to deal with a corruption affair, a racially motivated attack on Indians in Mügeln that made international headlines and the near-collapse of the state bank, among other things. But even he would admit that losing two percentage points in the Forsa poll would be preferable to the result the SPD was presented with.
The popularity of Milbradt’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) dropped to 39 percent in the survey about political allegiance in the state. Social Democrats meanwhile face a nightmare scenario where they are now below their previous lowest level, dropping from 9.8 percent to just 8 percent. They now sit behind the NPD, which polled 9 percent of votes.