German Opinion Poll: 22% Can Imagine Voting for AfD

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EU Skepticism Still Growing in Germany The recent state election in the Free State of Saxony already indicated as much: EU-skepticism is alive and well in Germany, even with the imminent threat from the EU’s sovereign debt and banking crisis on the back-burner.
This has now been further confirmed by the release of an Emnid survey (Emnid is a large polling company in Germany, comparable to Gallup), according to which 22% of German voters can imagine voting for the AdF (‘Alternative fr Deutschland’), an EU-skeptic party formed in February of 2013).
Note here that ‘could imagine to vote for’ is not the same as ‘would vote for if the election were held tomorrow’ – based on that, the party would receive only 6% of the nation-wide vote, which is however a clear improvement over the actual result in the last parliamentary election. Note that the party received 7% in the European election, which was a quite respectable, though not sensational result.

European election 2014: the AfD received a respectable 7% of the vote

This post was published at Acting-Man on September 8, 2014.