According to all public polls aggregated in 2023-2024 by the Euronews, it is predicted that Germany will vote for three parties: the CDU/CSU (the core of the European People’s Party), the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, and the SPD (an associate of the Socialists and the Democrats group).
The Superpoll predicts that the share of the CDU/CSU, the Christian Democrats, will rise from 29% in March to 30.2% by the end of April 2024. This will come at the expense of the SPD, the party of current German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, as it is expected to slowly decline from 17% in March this year to 15.6% at the end of April, according to the forecast.
The Greens are expected to lose the most support. The Green Party is set to fall 3% over the month, from 16% to 13%, according to the Euronews exclusive Superpoll.
The FDP’s Liberal-Democrats remains the only party in the current three-party coalition whose popularity has increased, rising from 4% to 4.7%. The party belongs to the Liberal-Democrats’ Renew group in the European Parliament.
The Afd party’s position remains uncertain, as Maximilian Krah, its leading candidate in the EU elections, has yet to face the consequences of the Chinese spy scandal. However, Krah still intends to run in the EU elections, with the AfD growing at an ambitious pace.
The steady growth of the CDU/CSU helps the current President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who considers a large coalition with the Conservative group to the detriment of the current major coalition with the Socialists and Liberals.
On April 30, Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera, the leading candidate of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) in the upcoming EU elections, called on EU citizens to unite to prevent a possible alliance between von der Leyen and national-oriented forces in the European Parliament.
Meanwhile, German activists burned the garden house of Armin Papperger, CEO of the arms company Rheinmetall, in Hermannsburg, Lower Saxony, to protest arms deliveries to Ukraine, according to Bild. In a letter on the Indymedia platform, the unknown persons confessed to the crime.
On the night of April 28-29, 2024, we placed an incendiary device on Armin Papperger’s garden house.
The letter of responsibility states that “Rheinmetall is one of the beneficiaries of the so-called tipping point” and that the company is stockpiling “various old types of tanks” that “can now be sold to Ukraine together with ammunition and at a hefty profit.”
