Germany news: Far-right AfD ahead of Merz's conservatives

A new national poll shows the far-right Alternative for Germany leading the center-right CDU/CSU for the first time, marking a seismic shift in the political landscape. | Contesto: cronaca

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• Germany news: Far-right AfD ahead of Merz's conservatives

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In a landmark result that underscores the nation's deepening political polarization, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has edged ahead of the mainstream conservative bloc led by Friedrich Merz in a new national poll. The survey, published this week, places the AfD at 19% of the vote, narrowly surpassing the 18% support for Merz's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU). This marks the first time the AfD has led the traditional center-right alliance in a major poll, representing a significant rupture in Germany's post-war political order. The poll is not an isolated outlier but the latest in a series of surveys that have shown the AfD topping national voter intention studies. Its steady rise in support over the past year has coincided with a period of profound economic anxiety, driven by high inflation and energy costs, and intense public debate over migration policy. The party, which was founded just a decade ago as a eurosceptic protest movement, has increasingly focused its rhetoric on anti-immigration sentiment and criticism of the government's climate policies, resonating with a growing segment of the electorate disillusioned with the ruling three-party coalition in Berlin. The implications for the CDU/CSU, Germany's traditional party of government, are severe. For decades, the union parties have anchored the center-right, frequently governing in coalition with smaller parties. The AfD's ascent to become the leading force on the right fragments that landscape and presents an existential strategic challenge for Friedrich Merz. His attempts to sharpen the CDU's profile on issues like migration and fiscal policy appear, in this poll at least, to have failed to halt the drift of voters toward the more radical alternative. The result will intensify internal party debates over whether to adopt a harder line to win back supporters or to more forcefully isolate the AfD as a pariah movement. Beyond the conservative camp, the poll sends shockwaves through the entire political establishment. The ruling "traffic light" coalition of Social Democrats (SPD), Greens, and Free Democrats (FDP) continues to...

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