The fact that around one million Ukrainians are currently fleeing does not trigger any great fears in Hesse.

Only one in four participants in a current survey by the opinion research institute infratest dimap is concerned that many refugees could also come to Germany.

However, three quarters of the Hessians are very or very concerned that the war will spread.

84 percent fear rising energy and living costs.

Ewald Hetrodt

Correspondent for the Rhein-Main-Zeitung in Wiesbaden.

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At the same time, the influence of the pandemic on the mood of the population is decreasing.

At present, almost 30 percent of people are still afraid that they or a family member could become infected with the virus.

In November 2020, the proportion was still 40 percent.

Sympathy for lifting the Corona rules

A clear majority of 61 percent considers the current opening policy of the federal and state governments to be appropriate.

Only a third are against it.

The sympathies for the lifting of the protection rules prevail in almost all population and voter groups.

The supporters of the AfD and FDP are the strongest.

The smallest proportion can be found in the ranks of the Social Democrats.

Praise and criticism of the state government’s corona policy are roughly balanced.

The representative survey commissioned by Hessischer Rundfunk took place in the first half of the week.

The previous Friday, the CDU had proposed the President of the state parliament, Boris Rhein, as the successor to the government and party leader, Volker Bouffier.

If the Hessians could elect the Prime Minister directly, Rhein would be ahead of Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Al-Wazir with 26 percent.

The figurehead of the Greens would receive three points less than the Union politician.

Nancy Faeser, Federal Minister of the Interior and possible SPD candidate for the next state election, would come up with twenty percent.

AfD falls from 13 to seven percent

If the Hessians were called to the polls this Sunday, the CDU would get 27 percent.

It would remain the strongest party, but would not get past the historically weak result in the 2018 state election.

In this snapshot, the SPD gains four points and, with 24 percent, is again the second strongest force ahead of the Greens, who are able to maintain their record result from 2018.

The AfD falls from more than 13 to seven percent.

On the other hand, the FDP can increase by 1.5 points to nine percent.

The left posted five percent.

In 2018 she had received 6.3 percent.

The current support for the work of the incumbent government, which is still led by Bouffier, is enormous.

Almost two thirds are satisfied overall with black and green.

According to its own statements, this is the highest value that infratest dimap has ever measured for a Hessian government coalition, and also a top position in a comparison of the federal states.

The popularity has thus increased by nine points since the beginning of the corona pandemic.

Around two-thirds of SPD and FDP supporters also agree with the government's performance.