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Hanover (dpa / lni) - According to a survey, the CDU in Lower Saxony comes away unscathed despite growing dissatisfaction with the state government among voters.

If the state elections were to take place next Sunday, the Christian Democrats would be the strongest political force with 33 percent, according to a survey by the Institute for Demoskopie Allensbach on behalf of the Drei-Quellen-Mediengruppe.

In the state elections in 2017, the CDU, which governs with the SPD, achieved a result of 33.6 percent.

The SPD would lose ten percentage points compared to 2017 and would come to 27 percent according to Allensbach.

The Greens would more than double their share of the vote and, according to the poll, would reach 20 percent.

AfD and FDP and probably also the Left Party would be in the state parliament.

As the survey also showed, the population's trust in the decisions of the state government with regard to the corona measures decreased significantly.

While around 70 percent of Lower Saxony supported the state government's course in October, in February only less than half of those surveyed said they were satisfied, and the proportion of dissatisfied rose to 41 percent.

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The grade point average for Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) also fell.

While in December 2020 50 percent of Lower Saxony were largely satisfied with the work of their Prime Minister, the figure fell to 40 percent in February.

Last but not least, the respondents were also increasingly critical of media coverage of the pandemic.

Every third Lower Saxony attested the media a tendency to scare tactics.

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