In a recent opinion poll conducted in Germany, it has been revealed that voters are turning away from the conservative CDU party even before Chancellor Friedrich Merz takes office. The survey indicates a decline in support for Merz, the likely future Chancellor, with dissatisfaction among voters on the rise.
Interestingly, the populist AfD party is benefiting from this discontent among the electorate. As the CDU loses support, the AfD is gaining ground and capitalizing on the dissatisfaction with the conservative party.
This shift in voter sentiment could have significant implications for the political landscape in Germany and the upcoming government under Chancellor Friedrich Merz. It will be interesting to see how these dynamics play out in the upcoming elections and how they will shape the future of German politics.
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America first just like germany first..
Just focus on your countries problem and not the worlds problem
For a long time I thought Merz was an anachronism, but now I think he is the right man at the right time.
Olaf Merz is going to be Friedrich Scholz.
AfD? Do Germany want to go the way of the USA?
1:16 The AFD will just make the wealth disparity even bigger but yeah sure….
Germans did not vote for status quo.
"First they fascinate the fools…" looking at what is happening in the US and thinking: Sure, the Berlin Wall did never happen, as they recall, it was awesome, let's try fascism again. They are looking around and say, yes, what the US is doing works out brilliant for the small people … 😀 And "I will certainly not totally get ** by this, but if everyone else gets, awesome, they deserve to be miserable" And at least we owned the democrats, right? 😀 Oh and since we are on it, let's introduce the Deutschmark and get out of the Eurozone, since that was totally not a disaster for everyone who tried, or for the US with their actual politics now… We are stronger alone. Just kidding, no one of them looks around, or is informed about real politics, or how things function, as long as there is someone to tell you about a simplistic solution. The real flaw in Democracy is, that there are always too many people who do not even have the bandwidth to take informed decisions, or to be able to think abstract and long-term – As if you make 3-year olds the managers of a candy store…
Germany is repeating the USA mistakes? Too bad, just like Trump, AFD is a straightforward collaborator with Russia, it’s a well-known fact. Germany will be under russian rule in no time🥴🙄
Btw DW uses the-party-which-must-not-be-named's main colours anyways. Maybe DW should change it into a more greenish colour to align its political views.
The globalists in Germany have gerrymandered the election outcome to prevent the AfD having any role in the government, when their members have been legitimately elected by the people.
The 1933-45 government of Germany would be proud of them!
All parties became so dumm and no proper real time goals and divided people. God should germany from such a political crisis
Can we get rid of the Behemoth Stealing Our Money And Opening The Borders, The Undemocratic EU.
Why is there carnival in Eastern Europe? Ash Wednesday was weeks ago! The carnival season is long over.
I always hear people who don't care much about politics say " we need to change something" But the never have any idea what should change only some broad ideas which more often than not are illogical or not based in reality.
East Germany should reunite with russia
The global economy is adapting to new trade systems in the New World.
The AFD should be in government
The Hon. Friedrich is by far better than Olaf Scholz.
Imagine thinking, "I like my one foreign coworker", is an argument for demographically wiping out your homeland.
In the West in general, we have an issue where leaders are getting voted in with really low vote shares. Populations more fractured than ever.
And this despite all the hard work done by public broadcast channels in talking down massive social problems.
I think we're taking leaps of assumptions here based on a 10% difference in polls, not even literal votes. Was there nothing else to cover?
Ich bin sehr enttäuscht von der Christlich Demokratischen Union Deutschlands. Sie arbeitet jetzt mit den Menschen zusammen, die uns große Probleme bereitet haben, anstatt sich mit der AfD zusammenzutun und Deutschland zu retten.
Trump is always talking about 'trade deficits' when he is talking about his trading partners around the world, but in his calculation he only includes raw materials/manufacturing goods/foods/beverages (= fysical products), while trade agreements between countries usually also include non fysical products, like 'information' (= data) and other sorts of (mainly digital) services, which often represent even more 'value' than the fysical products changing hands. To give an example: most europeans have several devices with a Microsoft/Apple account/subscription and use a lot of 'cloud storage' from companies like Amazon, Meta,… so besides the hardware, US companies take in billions of value from around the world just by delivering digital (and other) 'services'. As a result the US has been transforming its economy the last few decades to a 'services-oriented' economy and create enormous wealthy companies in the proces('because why focus on a 'manufacturing-oriented' economy when you get all your stuff for 10 dollars from around the world, when it takes you 20 dollars to make it yourself, meanwhile earning 50 dollars in the same time for delivering services to those manufacturing countries?'). This proces was a deliberate decision of the US itself during the last 30-40 years. It was NEVER forced upon the United States by anyone! It is also mostly the same proces that EU-countries went through (Yes, even in Germany, which always was very manufacturing-oriented) and brought a long great prosperity for most people. Especially in Eastern European countries, who came out of communist regimes before the nineties, this transition had a great, positive impact on the living standards of ordinary people.
If the US government would include the 'digital value' – and prosperity that came with it – of all the data/information they have generated over years from all over the world (Companies like Google know almost everything about me!) the trade deficits would always favor the OTHER PARTY/COUNTRY! But conveniently this is never mentioned in any of the statements from the US government. So besides the fact that Trump's recent global tariff scheme is based on a ridiculous calculation that has absolutely nothing to do with the tariffs that other countries use, but is based on (theoretical) trade deficits with individual countries (or in the case of the EU with the entire EU countries), the biggest problem is that these 'trade deficits' are being calculated on mainly fysical products so they greatly 'favor' the US, while 'fysical trading'is usually only a (small) part of any trade agreement as a whole. Trump's new billionaire friends like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg,… could have never become so incredible rich entrepreneurs if they ONLY 'fysically built' stuff and sold it locally/internationally. Their new found loyalty seems so contradictual: The whole idea of making the world more 'digital' is in essence to make make the world more connected (= more 'one') and doing this by a mutual benefitting transaction, not to divide (I am an IT'er myself.). But if you see everything purely transactional AND you only calculate in the factors you care about, then I guess any concept is good enough to 'weaponize' it and start dividing the world again into smaller pieces and turn them aganst each other.
Worse economic situation before they settled down tells everything.
Interest rates 2.5 in every eu country and 4.5 in Germany means a lot!
Every day ordinary people in the EU get poorer and less safe under the Brussels gang.
Learn from USA
You lose support when you're elected because you lied outright, Promising what the people desperately want with no intention of delivering
3:19 Thank you! I wish there were more europeans like you who spoke such common sense!