One month before the elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin, where elections will take place on September 26th parallel to the federal election, the SPD is clearly ahead, according to surveys.
According to a survey published on Thursday by Infratest dimap, which was carried out on behalf of Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and two newspapers, the SPD in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania reached 36 percent.
That is around five percentage points more than the party led by Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig received in the 2016 election.
With 17 percent of the vote, the AfD would once again emerge as the second strongest party in the election.
The CDU, currently a coalition partner of the SPD, would have 15 percent of the vote, the Left Party eleven percent.
The Greens would return to the state parliament with six percent and the FDP with eight percent.
Greens in Berlin are falling behind the CDU
In Berlin, the SPD and its top candidate Franziska Giffey, according to a survey published on Wednesday by Infratest dimap for the Berlin-Brandenburg radio and the “Berliner Morgenpost”, reached 23 percent and thus overtook the Greens compared to the previous survey.
The Greens with their top candidate Bettina Jarasch, however, fell from 22 to 17 percent.
The CDU around top candidate Kai Wegner deteriorated by two points to 19 percent.
The left remained stable at twelve percent, the FDP lost one point to eight percent.
The AfD won one point and was eleven percent.
A survey by the Insa Institute for the Bild newspaper also published on Wednesday came to similar values - 22 percent for the SPD, 18 percent for the Greens, 16 percent for the CDU, 15 percent for the Left, 9 percent for the FDP and for the AfD twelve percent.
The current red-red-green government alliance would have a majority, but other three-party alliances would also be mathematically possible.