AfD and BSW surge as FDP and greens falter in latest German poll

According to a new poll in Germany, the liberal FDP and the Greens are losing support, while AfD and BSW are gaining. The FDP and the Left Party would now be out of the Bundestag.

Commentators in Germany are wondering what significance the regional elections held on September 1st in Thuringia and Saxony will have for the German government. In both federal states, the far-right AfD and the new left-wing Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) performed well. In Thuringia, AfD won, leaving the Christian Democratic CDU far behind. An analysis of the reasons for the defeat of the governing parties - SPD, the Greens, and FDP - is now underway.

Olaf Scholz's government parties are experiencing a decline in support. According to a poll on Tuesday by the Insa Institute for the daily "Bild," the liberal FDP would not even enter the Bundestag if parliamentary elections were held today. The party would receive only 4.5% of the vote, one percentage point less than a week earlier.

The Greens are also losing support. Currently, they are backed by 10.5% of voters, a weekly decline of one percentage point.

The conservative Christian Democrats CDU/CSU remain the most substantial group with an unchanged result of 31.5%. The Social Democratic SPD remains at 15%. AfD (19%) and BSW (9.5%) have each gained half a percentage point.

The Left Party has also lost support and now registers at 2.5%. This means this party would not overcome the five-percent electoral threshold to enter the Bundestag.

For the poll, the Insa institute asked 2,002 Germans about their voting preferences from August 30 to September 2.