For what they are worth, opinion polls in Germany show again the AfD (Alternative for Germany) party coming in first, with 26%, with the CDU-CSU lagging behind at 24%. Support for CDU’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz has fallen again and is now at 29%, nine points below the aggregate vote for the government coalition.
Merz is dwelling with discontent in his own party, because of the unfulfilled promise to lower electricity prices and more recently, because of his criticism of the Israeli government. Those issues were on the agenda of a “crisis meeting” in the Chancellor’s office last evening. But he must also face his furious government ally, the SPD, which is up in arms because of the CDU-CSU veto on SPD candidates to the Supreme Court, which has led to candidate Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf to pull out of the race.
