Germany’s far right AfD party looks set for a huge election win in a bombshell vote that could force Angela Merkel out early.
The party stands a good chance of winning the most seats in the east of the country this autumn, which would be a serious blow to the German chancellor.
Although the AfD’s poll ratings remain in the low teens for Germany as a whole, it’s expected to seize control of dozens of councils in local elections next month, reports the Times.
In the 2017 general election, the nationalist opposition party came second to Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) in the eastern states, with 22 percent of the vote.
Now the AfD is narrowly ahead, with 23 percent against 22 percent, a survey for the tabloid Bild am Sonntag has revealed.
The Left party, a successor to the SED that ruled East Germany’s one-party state, is in third place with 18 percent.
While The Greens have increased their share from 5 percent to 12 percent in 18 months.
Three of the five former East German states – Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg – will elect new parliaments in September.
And polls suggest that the AfD could win any of the three, which would bring the far right into government for the first time since 1945.
The results of the poll in the west of the Federal Republic are completely different. There, the CDU/CSU Union continue to be the strongest party with 29 percent of the vote. Meanwhile the second largest party is the Greens (20 percent), while the AfD manages only 11 percent at fourth place in the survey.
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