The election poll “Hessentrend” sees the CDU in Hesse in front as well as the SPD and the Greens on a par. The survey also gives an indication of how satisfied voters are with their government.
Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) – If the Hessian state elections were on Sunday, the black-green state government could continue to govern, according to a recent survey. However, a grand coalition of CDU and SPD or a traffic light coalition of SPD, FDP and Greens would also be possible, as the current “Hessentrend” published by Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) on Wednesday shows.
Accordingly, the CDU would get 27 percent of the votes, unchanged from the Hesse trend of March 2022. According to the survey, the Greens would increase by two points to 22 percent, the SPD would lose two percentage points and also land at 22 percent. In the survey, the AfD came to 12 percent (5 percentage points), the FDP to 6 percent (-3) and the left to 3 percent (-2).
The respondents named energy policy and the energy transition as the most important political problem, as HR reported. 29 percent see this as the greatest challenge. That is 20 percentage points more than in the previous Hessen trend. Education and mobility ranked second among the topics.
The survey also revealed that one in four people in Hesse is “very worried” that their income or prosperity could fall. For another 34 percent, these worries are “great,” said the HR.
According to the survey, 49 percent are currently satisfied with the work of the state government, which is 15 percentage points less than the March Hesse trend. 45 percent are dissatisfied with the government’s performance. “The black-green cabinet has recorded its worst rating since taking office,” it said in the evaluation of the survey.
According to the Secretary General of the Hesse SPD, Christoph Degen, a mood of change is building in the state, and dissatisfaction with the incumbent state government is growing. The poll result for the Social Democrats, on the other hand, is stable and is above the results in the federal government and well above the result of the 2018 state election, said Degen in Wiesbaden.
The Secretary General of the Hessian CDU, Manfred Pentz, on the other hand, stated that almost half of the Hessians were satisfied or even very satisfied with the work of the black-green state government led by Prime Minister Boris Rhein (CDU). For the federal government made up of SPD, Greens and FDP, this poll figure is only 29 percent.
According to a statement, the Greens state chairmen Sigrid Erfurth and Sebastian Schaub are expecting an exciting three-way battle for the state chancellery. “The survey also shows that a year before the state elections, many people are still undecided.”
The state chair of the FDP, Federal Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger, called the poll results unsatisfactory for her party. The chairman of the FDP parliamentary group, René Rock, explained: “The federal trend has been reflected in the Hesse trend.”
The current poll values ??”really hurt and there’s nothing nice to talk about,” said the state chairmen of the Left Party, Petra Heimer and Jan Schalauske. “The left is in the most difficult phase since the party was founded in 2007.”
