AfD reaches record high of 23 percent according to »Deutschlandtrend«

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The traffic light at its lowest point, the AfD soaring: This is how the "Deutschlandtrend" can be summed up for the ARD "Morgenmagazin" on Friday.

The traffic light parties remain under pressure after the state elections in Bavaria and Hesse. In the ARD survey, they achieved their weakest result since the Bundestag election. Together, the SPD, the Greens and the FDP only received one-third of the votes in the survey conducted by the Infratest dimap institute. At 23 percent, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) achieved its highest score to date in the "Deutschlandtrend" and gained one percentage point.

If the Bundestag elections were held next Sunday, the CDU/CSU would gain one percentage point compared to the previous week to 29 percent and would be the strongest parliamentary group. The SPD would lose one percentage point and would come to 15 percent – the worst poll result in this legislative period. The Greens would also lose one percentage point and would come to 13 percent. The FDP would fall back by one percentage point to five percent. The Free Voters and the Left Party would each get four percent and would miss out on entering the Bundestag.

Immigration/displacement as the most important problems

According to the survey, the topic of immigration/flight is currently the most important issue for German citizens. 44 percent of those surveyed cited this as what they consider to be the most important political problem that politicians need to address as a matter of urgency. In second place with 18 percent is the area of armed conflicts/peace/foreign policy. Other topics such as pensions/old-age provision (13 percent), the economy (<> percent) and inflation and taxes (ten percent each) follow at a distance.

Other priorities such as environmental protection/climate change (one percent) or wages and social injustice (three percent each), which were described as important by respondents in the past, took a back seat this week, according to the survey.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Infratest dimap institute surveyed a total of 1203 eligible voters in Germany on behalf of the ARD "Morgenmagazin". The margin of error was reported to be two to three percentage points.

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