BERLIN. The current debate over the AfD’s top candidate for the EU elections, Maximilian Krah, does not appear to have damaged the party’s popularity among voters. If the elections on June 9 were to take place now, the AfD would get 17 percent. This corresponds to the same value as in April, according to a representative survey by the opinion research institute Insa On behalf of Photo on Sunday appears.
This would make the AfD the second strongest German party, after the CDU. The Christian Democrats were able to improve slightly from 29 to 30 percent compared to the previous month. The SPD now only has 14 percent, two points less than in April. The Greens remain unchanged at 13 percent. The approval figures for the FDP (four percent) and for the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance (seven percent) also remain unchanged. The Left Party lost one percentage point and is currently at three percent, as do the Free Voters, whose approval ratings have not changed since April.
The AfD has had turbulent weeks. About four weeks ago, the federal attorney general said one of Krah’s associates on suspicion of espionage be arrested. Last week Krah had that too in an interview with the newspaper The Republic said he would never say “that anyone who wore an SS uniform was automatically a criminal.” As a result, several European right-wing parties publicly distanced themselves from Krah and the AfD and excluded the party from the ID faction in the EU Parliament. (st)