Failing Chancellor Merz and His Establishment ‘Conservatives’ Are Scrambling to Stop the Upsurge of Rightwing AFD in Eastern Germany
Merz is learning that it’s hard to resist an idea whose time has come: Remigration.
Failing German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is for some reason emboldened by his ‘heroic’ 44-hour German mission in Greenland, as we can read in ‘SUPERPOWER’: The FIFTEEN German Soldiers Sent to ‘Defend’ Greenland Have Already Returned Home (VIDEO).
But as 2026 kicks is, Merz is forced to pay some attention to his own country, since many regional elections will be held this year.
So, his priority is counter the surging poll numbers of the rightwing Alternative for Germany (AfD), especially in the eastern German region where it is strongest.
Politico reported:
“The effort comes in a crowded year of elections — a Superwahljahr, or ‘super election year’, as Germans are calling it — that includes five state races and numerous local contests seen as key tests of the national mood, particularly as the AfD overtakes Merz’s governing conservatives in many polls.
Two of the state elections are taking place in eastern German states where the AfD is far ahead in polls and aiming to win significant governing power for the first since the party’s founding nearly 13 years ago.”
At rural Saxony-Anhalt the party shows nearly 40 percent support.
“For Merz, clear AfD victories in Saxony-Anhalt and beyond during his tenure would represent a major embarrassment. Before being elected chancellor nearly a year ago, the conservative leader largely staked his candidacy on a vow to stop the rise of the AfD. In an effort to do so — and win back voters who have defected to the AfD — Merz shifted his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) sharply to the right on migration. Historic far-right successes under his watch will be seen as proof that this strategy is failing.”
At rural Saxony-Anhalt the party shows nearly 40 percent support.
“For Merz, clear AfD victories in Saxony-Anhalt and beyond during his tenure would represent a major embarrassment. Before being elected chancellor nearly a year ago, the conservative leader largely staked his candidacy on a vow to stop the rise of the AfD. In an effort to do so — and win back voters who have defected to the AfD — Merz shifted his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) sharply to the right on migration. Historic far-right successes under his watch will be seen as proof that this strategy is failing.”
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