{"id":339978,"date":"2025-08-13T02:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T02:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339978\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T02:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T02:05:14","slug":"germanys-afd-leads-poll-for-first-time-beats-cdu-with-26-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339978\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany’s AfD leads poll for first time, beats CDU with 26% support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Germany\u2019s <\/a>rising populist right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has beaten out Chancellor Friedrich Merz\u2019s\u00a0Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a mainstream conservative party, in popularity in a new survey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

AFD garnered 26% of support in the poll put out by the Forsa Institute for Social Research and Statistical Analysis. Merz\u2019s CDU got 24% of support, its worst result since the 2021 election, according to the poll. \u00a0<\/p>\n

This comes as 67% of Germans say they are dissatisfied with Merz\u2019s job after his first 100 days in office, the poll said. He was elected in May.<\/p>\n

GERMANY’S MERZ TO ‘ADAPT’ TO TRUMP DURING HIGH-STAKES MEETING ON TARIFFS, DEFENSE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Alternative for Germany rally last year.\u00a0 (\u00a0Sean Gallup\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

AfD is now the leading opposition party in Germany\u2019s Bundestag.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the party, led by Alice Weidel, was classified as “extremist<\/a>” by Germany\u2019s intelligence agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n

GERMAN CONSERVATIVE LEADER ELECTED CHANCELLOR AFTER HISTORIC FIRST-ROUND LOSS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Alternative for Germany leader Alice Weidel.\u00a0 (Soren Stache – Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio decried the decision, calling it “tyranny in disguise.”<\/p>\n

“Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition,”\u00a0Rubio posted on X at the time. “That\u2019s not democracy\u2014it\u2019s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD\u2014which took second in the recent election\u2014but rather the establishment\u2019s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes. Germany should reverse course.”<\/p>\n

The party was founded in 2013 as an anti-euro movement, but since then has taken a hard-right stance on issues like immigration<\/a> and Islam.<\/p>\n

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Elon Musk waves speaks live via a video transmission during a speech by Alice Weidel last year.\u00a0 (Sean Gallup\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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Across Europe, other far-right groups are gaining in popularity, including Nigel Farage\u2019s Reform UK and the National Rally party in France.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Germany\u2019s rising populist right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,26,8048],"class_list":{"0":"post-339978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-world","12":"tag-world-politics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115019010961403951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}