The latest polling data revealed that if elections were held this weekend, the AfD would collect a record high 23% of the national vote, just three percentage points behind the establishment CDU/CSU.
The Gallup Institute’s survey’s results are not particularly surprising in light of the massive numbers of voters who previously voted for establishment parties, but who have now thrown their support behind the FPÖ, seeing in them a party that offers an alternative vision for the country.
“The poll illustrates one thing clearly: the facade is crumbling and the majority of people in the Netherlands are no longer fooled by the mainstream media which continues to serve as an extension of our government. It is time for the Rutte government to step down,” said Dutch MP Simone Kerseboom (FvD).
The political winds have changed. In the wake of President Macron raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, his already dismal approval ratings and popularity have sunk even lower, as two recent surveys reveal.
“The mood in society is similar to the mood in the GDR at the end of the 1980s, shortly before the collapse of the system,” AfD MP Petr Bystron said while commenting on the survey’s alarming figures.
The opinion poll comes several months after another survey carried out by the same institute revealed that 31% of Germans believe they are living in a “sham democracy” where citizens “have no say.”
