Germany’s emerging populist right -wing party alternative for Germany (AfD) has defeated Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a mainstream conservative party, in popularity in a new survey.
AfD received 26% of the support in the poll pronounced by the Forsa Institute for Social Research and Statistical Analysis. Merz’s CDU received 24% of the support, the worst result since the 2021 elections, according to the poll.
This is when 67% of the Germans say that after his first 100 days they are dissatisfied with Merz’s job, the poll said. He was chosen in May.
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Alternative to Germany Rally last year. (Sean Gallup/Getty images)
AfD is now the leading opposition party in the Bundestag of Germany.
Earlier this year, the party, led by Alice Weidel, was classified as “extremist” by the German intelligence service.
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Alternative to Germany leader Alice Weidel. (Soren Stache – Pool/Getty images)
The American State Secretary Marco Rubio denied the decision and called it ‘Tyranny in disguise’.
“Germany just gave his espionage agency new powers to investigate the opposition,” Rubio posted on X at that time. “That is not a democracy – it is a disguised tyranny. What is really extremist is not the popular AfD – which was second in the recent elections – but rather the deadly open border of the course should be the course of the course.”
The party was founded in 2013 as an anti-euro movement, but has since taken a hard right on issues such as immigration and Islam.
Elon Musk Waves speaks live via a video transmission during a speech by Alice Weidel last year. (Sean Gallup/Getty images)
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Throughout Europe, other extreme right -wing groups win in popularity, including Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and the National Rally Party in France.
