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Assessment of parties and politicians. Attitude towards political issues. Topics: Most important political issues in Thuringia; intention to participate in the state elections; intended type of election (polling station or postal vote); party preference (first and second vote); security of one´s own voting decision; interest in the state election; importance of federal politics for one´s own voting decision at state level; voting behaviour in the last state election; coalition preference; attitude towards participation of CDU, Die Linke, SPD, AfD, Greens and FDP in state government; preference for a party elected by Die Linke vs. state government led by the CDU (Split A); opinion on the formation of a government with the Left and with the AfD excluded by the CDU in Thuringia (Split B); sympathy scale for selected parties at federal and state level (Split A); Satisfaction with the performance of the state government from the Left, SPD and Greens, with the Left, SPD and Greens as parts of the state government, with the opposition parties CDU and AfD and with the performance of the federal government from CDU/CSU and SPD (Scalometer, Split B); Sympathy Scale for top politicians Björn Höcke, Angela Merkel, Mike Mohring, Bodo Ramelow and Wolfgang Tiefensee; party that performs best or second best; political interest; Split B: preference for Bodo Ramelow or Björn Höcke or for Bodo Ramelow or Mike Mohring as prime minister (Split A: preference for Bodo Ramelow or Mike Mohring or for Bodo Ramelow or Björn Höcke); comparison of the credibility, sympathy and expertise of the two top politicians Ramelow and Mohring (Split B); assessment of the own economic situation, the economic situation of the federal state in general and in comparison to the other east German states; Split A: most competent party to solve the economic problems in the federal state, for a better infrastructure in the areas of fast internet, public transport, medical care and shopping facilities, in the...