cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/25151353
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.
That’s a narrative straight out of the right wing of the right wing of the CDU. If you actually cross-check the stances of CDU voters and people like Merz you’d quickly find that voters don’t really have an issue with rape in marriage being a thing you can go to prison for. And that people like Günther draw in far more votes than people like Merz. And more than, for that matter, Söder.