IW study: AfD in Saxony-Anhalt uses requests to create sentiment

Berlin. According to a study, the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt primarily uses parliamentary questions to create a mood. Migration and internal security are particularly often discussed.

For their study, researchers Knut Bergmann and Armin Mertens from the German Economic Institute (IW) evaluated 8,445 small inquiries that were made in the state parliament between April 2016 and June 2026. The study is available to Handelsblatt.

Small inquiries are written questions from members of parliament or parliamentary groups to the state government. The opposition in particular uses it to obtain information and control the government. According to the results of the study, the AfD accounted for 2,743 inquiries during the study period, almost a third. Only the left asked more.