Posted on 02/22/2025 6:56:16 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
A final poll ahead of tomorrow's German election has predicted that the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party will see a major increase in votes, but not enough to overtake Friedrich Merz of the CDU.
A little more than a month after German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier called for an election following a vote of no confidence against chancellor Olaf Scholz of the centre-left Social Democratic Party, Germans will have their chance to vote tomorrow.
And in what has been described as a 'pivotal' election for Europe's largest economy, the country's CDU, or conservative party, looks set to top the vote, according to the latest opinion polls.
The party, spearheaded by leader Friedrich Merz, sits top of today's latest opinion polls and is predicted to win 29.7% of the vote, with Merz promising to 'take responsibility in Europe' if victorious.
'The German government and chancellor must finally take on a leading role on the international stage,' he said this week in front of 1,200 supporters in Darmstadt.
'If I'm elected I will spend a significant part of my time keeping this European Union together.'
But the rise in popularity of the country's far-right political party, AfD, is only set to continue, with opinion polls predicting that Alice Weidel and her party will garner 20.6% of the vote - moving it above the in-power SDP, currently in coalition with the Greens.
The anti-immigration AfD has enjoyed a surge in popularity of late, having moved from the fringes to the forefront of German politics, transforming into a hardline nationalist movement increasingly open to extremist elements, including neo-Nazis.
Weidel, the party's first chancellor candidate, has focused on appealing to young voters having racked up more than 870,000 followers on TikTok. Securing support from the increasingly outspoken and influential Elon Musk...
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Fred Merz is going to lead Europe ?
I just love how if it isn’t left of Stalin, it’s “far-right”.
I just want my Ukraine money back. All of it. From anyone who benefited from it.
At least Stalin didn’t invite the Nazis in to rape/stab/kill/run over Soviet people. He fought them.
ethel approves
Lucy will botch it somehow.
He’ll have some ‘splainin’ to do.
See, all voting in Germany is in one day!
And you have to vote in person!
‘ And you have to vote in person!’
There are options to vote. Y mail in Germany.
No mention of the far-left Linken or BSW or Grünen.
While the (more or less) centrist CDU/CSU and SPD defiantly refuse to ever work together - let alone form a coalition with - the AfD, they have no such objections when it comes to rubbing elbows with the Linken, the BSW, or the Grünen.
Regards,
“far right” = right of Stalin
Maybe tomorrow evening in Germany, Herr Merz will be just as drunk as Kamala was on Nov.5, 2024. Unexpected events happen.
And you don’t want your Medicare money back? Why not?
… while frontrunner Friedrich Merz vows to lead Europe …Hmm. What does that sound like, I wonder.
Freidrich has a long moustache.
Why do German leaders tend to have hairs in funny place and shape?
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