According to polls, the SPD and CDU are neck-and-neck in NRW.
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Berlin The Union remains the strongest party nationwide with 26 percent. This emerges from the weekly survey by the opinion research institute Insa for the “Bild am Sonntag”. According to the preliminary report, the chancellor party SPD loses one point and comes to 23 percent this week.
The Greens remain stable at 18 percent, the FDP gains one point and comes to ten percent. According to the survey, the AfD would vote for eleven percent of those surveyed (+/-0), the other parties would get eight percent (+1) of the votes. The Left Party loses one point compared to the previous week and only comes to four percent.
Insa surveyed 1202 people from April 25 to April 29, 2022. The maximum error tolerance is +/- 2.9 percentage points.
In the most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where the state elections will be held on May 15, the CDU and the SPD are meanwhile in a neck-and-neck race according to polls. The most recent survey by Infratest Dimap put the Christian Democrats (31 percent) one percentage point ahead of the Social Democrats (30 percent). According to Insa, the SPD was again two percentage points ahead of the CDU.
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Even in the event of a second place, SPD top candidate Thomas Kutschaty wants to try to become prime minister. “Naturally. In principle, this is not forbidden,” said the former Minister of Justice and SPD state leader to the Berlin “Tagesspiegel”. “It’s about organizing a stable majority in parliament for your own government, if it’s mathematically possible.”
Kuchaty: Wüst shies away from the argument
Kuchaty emphasized that there were good contacts with both the Greens and the FDP. In any case, one thing is clear: “In not a single recent survey is it enough for black and yellow, i.e. for the continuation of the current government.” This government will be voted out.
It is also important for the position of North Rhine-Westphalia that a prime minister works closely with the federal government of Olaf Scholz (SPD) – that would be the case with him.
He accused the incumbent Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) of shying away from confrontation with him: “I have not yet met him at any panel discussion. There is always only the second and third row of the CDU. I don’t know why he shys away from the public and doesn’t want a direct comparison.”
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