{"id":89487,"date":"2026-09-07T14:01:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/89487\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:01:28","slug":"what-now-for-germanys-merz-after-afd-win-france-24-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/89487\/","title":{"rendered":"What now for Germany&#8217;s Merz after AfD win? \u2022 FRANCE 24 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"What now for Germany&#039;s Merz after AfD win? \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/whH7f1OEtwM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhat now for Germany&#8217;s Merz after AfD win? \u2022 FRANCE 24 English<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe far-right AfD&#8217;s triumph in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt marks a defeat for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and sends a warning to other European leaders battling the same mixture of slow growth and disillusion with mainstream politics. In an increasingly polarized political system, Merz, whose personal approval ratings have sunk \u200cto record lows, was one of the main targets of voter ire over the cost of living, pensions and economic insecurity. France 24\u2019s Philip Turle takes a look at what the AfD\u2019s victory means for the German leader and for Europe.<br \/>\n#AfD #Germany #election<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What now for Germany&#8217;s Merz after AfD win? \u2022 FRANCE 24 English The far-right AfD&#8217;s triumph in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[2960,21388,906,5041,22,23,20,21,62,1064,64782,1144],"class_list":["post-89487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france24","tag-afd","tag-alternative-for-germany","tag-election","tag-far-right","tag-france-24","tag-france-24-english","tag-france24","tag-france24-english","tag-germany","tag-merz","tag-saxony-anhalt","tag-vote"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117230150787618651","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}