The party, which has been classified in some quarters as being securely on the extreme right, climbed to 26% approval in the Sunday poll conducted by the opinion research institute Forsa on behalf of RTL/ntv. In the Bundestag elections, the party had received 20.8% of the vote.
It is closely followed by the CDU/CSU, which is still below its result in the general election (28.5%) with a current 25%. The SPD achieved 15 percent (16.4 percent) in the Forsa survey. The Greens are virtually unchanged at 11% (11.6%), while the Left Party is at 9% (8.8%). The FDP and BSW both achieve four percent.
If federal elections were held on Sunday, the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats would no longer have a majority. They had negotiated a coalition agreement after the election, which now needs to be ratified. CDU leader Friedrich Merz is to be elected Chancellor in the Bundestag on May 6.
Is there a simple explanation for the increased AfD support? I’m in the US and have almost no clue about EU politics.
The current German government is Nazis pretending to be centrists so people think voting for open Nazis is the solution.
In US terms the current German government is the Democrats which refuse to compromise with leftists on anything. The AfD is Trump.
30% right or left wing nuts. The future looks bright. Not.
