BERLIN, August 31. /TASS/. The popularity of the right-wing party "Alternative for Germany". (AfD) continues to grow at the federal level, the rating of the ruling coalition "Traffic light" (SPD, Greens, FDP) The Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP) fell below 5% amid disagreements over the budget. This is shown by the results of a public opinion survey conducted by the sociological institute INSA on behalf of the newspaper Bild am Sonntag.
19% of voters are ready to vote for the AfD, which is one percentage point more than the previous week. Thus, the party confidently ranks second in the popularity rating of political forces in Germany, second only to the opposition bloc of the Christian Democratic and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU), which has 31% (unchanged). The Free Democrats lost 1 percentage point and received the support of only 4% of those polled. This means that, with such a result, the party of German Finance Minister Christian Lindner would not be able to enter the Bundestag (German parliament). The last time this happened to the FDP was in the 2013 federal election.
The rating of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) - the party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and the Greens did not change compared to last week and are respectively 16% and 11%. Party "Union Sara Wagenknecht - for reason and justice" (BSW), whose leader opposes anti-Russian sanctions and arms supplies to Kiev, gets 9% (unchanged). "The current coalition "Traffic light" harms all three countries that are part of it,” said INSA head Hermann Binkert. “They have weakened significantly in the last year before the next federal election,” he added.
The SPD lost about 39% of its voters after the Bundestag elections, “The Greens” - 27%. The FDP has lost 65% and is fighting for political survival, the paper sums up.
The survey was conducted from August 26 to 30. 1202 people participated in it.
On August 16, the leaders of the parties belonging to the ruling coalition in Germany, after long and difficult negotiations, reached a compromise regarding the federal budget for 2025. In particular, controversial issues were clarified. At the beginning of July, the chancellor, the heads of the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Finance already announced an agreement on the budget for next year. However, Lindner has already expressed doubts about several projects and ordered them to be studied from a constitutional and economic point of view. Overall, the budget for 2025 will be over EUR 480 billion; EUR 4 billion will be allocated for military support to Ukraine, which is half of 2024.