The newly founded alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) is the third strongest force in a poll on the so-called Sunday question in Saxony. This is the result of the current Saxony trend of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR). In response to the question "Which party would you vote for if state elections were held in Saxony next Sunday?", 8.0% of respondents answered BSW. MDR commissioned the poll from the opinion research institute Infratest dimap.
According to the survey, the BSW could particularly appeal to previous AfD and SPD voters - with 38 and 28 percent respectively.
35 percent opted for the AfD in the Sunday poll - that is 7.5 percentage points more than in the last state election in 2019. The AfD is classified as securely right-wing extremist in Saxony by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The survey sees the CDU as the second strongest force with 30 percent. In the state election five years ago, it was at 32.1 percent.
The SPD received 7.0 percent in the Saxony trend - 0.7 percentage points less than in the last state election. The Greens also received 7.0 percent, 1.6 percentage points less than in the last election. Only 4.0% of respondents would currently vote for the Left Party, which would therefore have to worry about entering parliament. In the 2019 state election, the party had 6.4 percentage points more.
