AfD leader Alice Weidel has the support of 24% of those surveyed, the newspaper has reported.
The co-leader of the right-wing AfD (Alternative for Germany) party, Alice Weidel, is ahead of her rivals in the campaign to become the next chancellor, according to the latest survey conducted by the INSA polling institute for Bild.
The results of the poll, published by the tabloid newspaper on Sunday, showed that Weidel has the support of 24% of respondents, putting her ahead of the leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Friedrich Merz, who received 20%.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who represents the Social Democratic Party (SPD), was reportedly backed by 15% of respondents. His coalition partner and Green Party leader, Robert Habeck, was favored by 14%.
The AfD named Weidel, 45, as its first chancellor candidate on December 7, setting out the bid for power ahead of snap elections scheduled for February 23. Weidel is due to be confirmed as the AfD’s nominee at a party conference next month.
In an interview with Bloomberg last week, Weidel accused the EU of destroying the German auto industry, the country’s economic pillar, and proposed winding back the bloc to a free-trade zone.
Earlier this month, the AfD stated in its draft election manifesto that Germany should leave the bloc and the euro in Brexit-like fashion, calling for a referendum on the issue.
AfD membership has swelled by 50% to about 50,600 over the past year, the party’s spokesperson told Reuters earlier his month. That number, however, only represents about 14% of the membership of Germany’s biggest parties, the CDU/CSU conservative bloc and the SPD.
In recent years, right-wing, anti-immigration parties have gained traction across the EU, coming to power in Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, and Slovakia.
AfD leader Alice Weidel holds back tears as she gives passionate speech about the betrayal of the German people.
Germany is absolutely heartbroken. pic.twitter.com/yjSKN4qi7d
— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) December 23, 2024
Wake up Germans, your future depends on it. Your tipping point has been reached.
Unfortunately many people have not woken up to the fact that these mainstream party’s don’t represent their interests. I suspect its a mix of personal pride and wilful ignorance, the result is little changes. It will take time but the AfD will win out but not this election or the one after it or maybe even after that.
Still they are lucky to have an alternative that stands a chance, unlike here in NZ.
We did have a chance for an alternative, but that was deliberately sabotaged in the last (s)election, that being the NZ Loyal Party!
Besides, the built-in ‘Fail Safe’ option for getting any other party into power other than the UniParty here in New Zealand would be thwarted by ‘Operation Katipo’, using the military / NZDF / NZ Police to over-turn a populist political party win during (s)elction day.
“It will take time but the AfD will win out but not this election or the one after it or maybe even after that…”
Sadly, no they won’t. The globalists are using the same tactics in France, the UK and probably intended for the US too. The entire western world basically.
They’re running out the clock, while we all tell ourselves “ah don’t worry lads, we’ll get em next time – just keep voting”.
Meanwhile the demographic clock keeps on ticking right along as the flood of migrants all cross their T’s and dot their i’s to become full fledged voting citizens. Thousands of their local-born children also come of age and join the voter base every day.
Just a few more years and the establishment won’t even need to rig elections anymore.
Mass deportations are the only thing that can save Europe at this point, but nobody wants to admit it. Even Farrage himself cowers spinelessly at the proposition.
Let’s hope the German public wake up and there becomes a growing global wave to rout out the rot.