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Archive: https://archive.is/2025.04.09-095416/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germanys-far-right-afd-tops-poll-first-time-blow-chancellor-in-waiting-merz-2025-04-09/

BERLIN, April 9 - Germany’s far-right AfD party topped a major poll for the first time on Wednesday in a sign of growing dissatisfaction with mainstream parties as chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz seeks to seal a coalition government deal.

Support for Merz’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc, which won the February 23 election, fell by five percentage points to 24% while the Alternative for Germany (AfD) gained three points to land on 25%, according to the Ipsos institute’s poll.

The AfD came second in the election, the best performance by a far-right party since World War Two.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    1·
    6 days ago

    I can only hope that the new coalition tries to improve people’s lives and thus removes reasons for the AfD to exist. Otherwise the next elections are going to be a disaster.

      • atro_city@fedia.io
        2·
        6 days ago

        Yeah, conservatives don’t understand how to move forwards and just like maintaining a status quo. Unfortunately, they have been in power so long that they control enough of the media outlets to influence the population to think that being progressive is a bad thing for the people. And they fuck the education system in such a way that people are easy to manipulate. What they didn’t factor in, just like encryption backdoors, is that other entities might be successful at manipulating people.

        They did this in so many countries in Europe (and probably abroad), that the US started flexing their conservative muscles together with Russia and this is what we get.

    • Commiunism@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      That’s never gonna happen, especially in Germany where the historically largest parties (both socdems and conservatives) can be essentially boiled down to “nothing ever happens”. Hell, I even doubt that Die Linke would be able to do much if they were somehow magically the majority in the government.

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      They are slashing social welfare, and the poorest are generally quite eager to vote for the nazis for some reason (certainly not their policies, they hate poor people just as much as the current government parties).