Germany’s main ruling party, the Christian Democratic CDU, has been dropping in the polls for the fourth consecutive week while the right-wing opposition AfD keeps rising, as the latest polling data shows them being neck and neck for the second time since the February election.
According to the new survey by the Forsa Institute on behalf of RTL, both the CDU and the AfD now stand at 25%, which represents a 4.2-point increase for AfD and a 3.5-point drop for CDU since the election. The social democrat SPD remains at third place with 13%, followed by the Left and Greens with 12% each.
The same poll also revealed the deepening dissatisfaction among Germans with Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The survey found that only 32% of Germans are satisfied with Merz’s leadership—down by three points in a single week—while dissatisfaction rose by four points to 64%, the highest since Angela Merkel left office in 2021.
This means that Merz has managed to become more unpopular in just a few months than his socialist predecessor Olaf Scholz ever was, despite his failures leading to the utter collapse of the SPD during the February elections.
This data arrived just after AfD leader Alice Weidel’s interview in front of the Bundestag went viral due to left-wing protesters loudly disturbing it, and the public broadcaster ARD, which could have easily mitigated the noise, chose to instead do nothing.
Throughout the interview, Weidel brought up several arguments against the government policies, especially with regard to migration, that usually don’t appear in mainstream media.
One example is the recent scandal about Berlin offering rewards to public servants for exceeding certain migrant naturalization quotas, which undermines the integrity of the screenings in exchange for handing out as many new German citizenships as possible.
Above all, Weidel sharply criticized Chancellor Merz for betraying his voters by abandoning his election promises, something—as the polling data shows—many of them agree with.
“I called Chancellor Merz a liar, and rightly so, because he broke all his election promises. He promised to abolish the heating law—that’s gone. He promised a migration turnaround. That’s been scrapped too,” Weidel said.
Meanwhile, the establishment, the secret services, and the judiciary continue their crusade against the AfD, although it doesn’t seem to affect the party’s steady rise in the polls.
Most recently, the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig rejected the party’s appeal against the “right-wing extremist” classification coming from the German domestic intelligence agency BfV, which allows it to spy on the AfD leadership and gives justification for the political elite to pursue its ultimate agenda of banning the party.
The socialist SPD has already begun laying the legislative groundwork for a potential federal ban, while simultaneously pushing to install a radical leftist candidate who could legitimize such a move on the Constitutional Court.
And yet, AfD is on the brink of becoming the most popular party in Germany, if it hasn’t already.
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Merz is a fucking idiot.