Center-Right CDU/CSU in Germany leads the voting intentions, as the far-right gets a boost by the electorate. The AfD overtakes the Social-Democrats, according to the Euronews Poll Center
According to the Euronews exclusive Superpoll, it is predicted that Germany will vote in favour of three parties: the CDU/CSU, the back bone of the European People’s Party, the far-right AfD party, a component of the Identity and Democracy group, and the SPD, an associate of the Socialists and the Democrats group.
The Superpoll predicts that the CDU/CSU (Centre-right Christian Democrats) has increased from 29 percent this March to 30.2 percent by late April 2024.
It will come at the expense of the SPD, the party of the current German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The centre-left SPD party are predicted to have a slow descent from 17 percent this March to 15.6 percent in late April.
The party that seems to be losing the most ground are the Greens. According to the Euronews exclusive Superpoll, the Green party will suffer a 3 percent drop in one month, from 16 to 13 percent.
The FDP’s Liberal-Democrats is the only party (and the smallest) within the current tri-partite coalition that seems to be slightly improving in its popularity by growing from 4 to 4.7 percent.
The FDP is a component of Renew, the Liberal-Democrats group at the European Parliament.
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As for the far-right Afd party, It is too early to say if the Chinese spying scandal affected, Maximilian Krah, the leading AfD candidate in the EU elections. Mr Krah is still running for the EU elections and the AfD has been growing at an ambitious rate.
The robust growth of the CDU/CSU has given a boost to the current EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen, that starts to contemplate the possibility of a big centre-right coalition with the Conservatives’ group at the possible detriment of the current grand coalition with the socialists and the liberals. According to the pan-EU figures available, it seems at the moment a quite ambitious plan.
On the radical left side, the migration skeptic faction of Sarah Wagenknecht, seems to be loosing consensus, even thought it overtakes the Liberals of the FDP and Die Linke, a decades old member of the Left group at the EU parliament.
