Germany, INSA poll

Europe Elects ^ | 8/24/2025

[Redmen4ever]

CDU/CSU 25% Alternative Party 25%

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TOPICS: Germany; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alternativeparty; cducsu; germany

[Redmen4ever]

Polls have tightened up again in Germany. Chancellor Merz' party (the center-right Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union) is currently tied with the populist-right Alternative Party. Weakness in the economy and geopolitical uncertainties don't bode well for Merz.

Merz has recently said that the German social welfare system is no longer financially sustainable. But, will the coalition of his party with the Social Democrats allow him to make necessary reforms to immigration and refugee policies, or to directly reform welfare?

The next election isn't until 2029, but maybe Merz should right now work out needed reforms working with the Alternative Party rather than with the Social Democrats.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Looks like its time for the German Deep State to ramp up its lawfare campaign against the AfD. Complete with them reminding the media to call AfD “extreme far right” and talk darkly about their “racism” and Nazi legacy.

[Tom Tetroxide]

AfD SURGES to MOST POPULAR Party in Germany!!!
by Steve Turley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBufU5640_k

[delta7]

Merz has recently said that the German social welfare system is no longer financially sustainable
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Either is their pledge to raise 5 percent of their GDP for their military. Germans are taxed to their eyeballs, in a deep recession, possibly going into depression.

Trying to squeeze more money out of the serfs will be disastrous…maybe time to give their government the French treatment.

https://dordognevie.com/last-use-guillotine-france/

“ The Last Person to Face the Guillotine

Fast forward to 10 September 1977, when Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant, became the last person to be executed by guillotine in France, and, indeed, the last execution carried out by mechanical decapitation in any Western democracy….”

[Leaning Right]

> Looks like it’s time for the German Deep State to ramp up its lawfare campaign against the AfD. <

All they’d need do is send a few agents to an AfD rally. The agents throw the Hitler salute, and poof! the AfD is banned.

Something like that is bound to happen. Because no way will the German Deep Stage allow the AfD to take power.

Just as the French Deep State won’t let Marine Le Pen take power.

[Gay State Conservative]

But most importantly repeatedly shout that AfD is the party that Trump supports.It worked in Canada...and Australia.

[Redmen4ever]

A deficit hawk!

Speaking of deficits, compare the budget deficits of Germany and of the U.S.

https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/government-budget

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/federal-surplus-or-deficit-—as-percent-of-gross-domestic-product-percent-of-gdp-fed-data.html

[pepsionice]

It’s 100 days into this coaltion, and there’s real victory dances that either the CDU/CSU or SPD parties can make.

The enlargement plan for the German Army....going nowhere, and there’s talk of bringing back the draft.

Reaching a conclusion on the 2026 or 2027 budget? Going nowhere. Presently for 2027...there’s a 30-odd billion Euro gap discussed.

The economy? Stalled....they need access to the cheaper Russian natural gas.

The size of the welfare program? It’s grown to a point where it’s not manageable.

Roads and bridges? There’s a list of a thousand-odd bridges which need replacement, and they simply don’t have the funds to resolve the problem.

Odds of this coalition lasting to 2029? If lucky...they will make it to the 3rd year before it collapses, and early election occurs.