The support of Germans for the right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) reached the same level as that of the German conservatives, who are center-right, according to a survey released this Saturday.
The poll, conducted by the INSA institute for the newspaper Bild, is published six weeks after the federal elections in Germany, in which the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its ally, the Christian Social Union (CSU), emerged as winners.
According to the latest data, the conservative CDU/CSU coalition has 24% support, exactly the same percentage as the AfD.
Since the last survey conducted shortly after the elections on February 23, support for the conservatives dropped by two percentage points, while the AfD gained one point. The decline in the approval level of the conservative coalition can be explained by their willingness to form a government with the center-left, instead of allying with AfD.
Meanwhile, the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the German center-left, which suffered a loss of more than a third of its votes in the elections, remains at 16% in this new survey, maintaining its position in the electoral preference table.
