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The Forsa poll also showed that, while Merz focuses on foreign policy issues such as the war in Ukraine and Europe's relationship with the US under President Donald Trump, he is facing political problems at home.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the most popular party in the country, according to a new poll published on Tuesday.
If national elections were held tomorrow, 26 percent of Germans would vote for the AfD, according to a poll conducted by the Forsa Institute for Social Research and Statistical Analysis. The result puts the far-right party ahead of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's main conservative bloc, which fell to second place with 24 percent.
With the far-right National Rally clearly leading in France, the shocking German poll is likely to stir concern among key leaders across Europe. Right-wing populist parties have performed strongly in elections in recent years from Poland to Romania and from Portugal to the Netherlands.
In Britain, Nigel Farage's far-right Reform UK party is also leading the polls, amid widespread public dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour government.
While a POLITICO poll shows Germany's conservative Christian Democrats holding a slight lead over the AfD in a compilation of voter surveys, the far-right party has surged since taking almost 21 percent of the vote in February's federal election, its best result ever. The AfD is now the largest opposition party in Germany's Bundestag.
The AfD was originally founded as a single-issue party more than a decade ago by a group of economics professors who, in the midst of Europe's debt crisis, opposed the euro and financial aid for debt-ridden countries. It regularly scored single-digit results in federal and state elections in its early years.
Now led by Alice Weidel, a radical former economist, the AfD currently espouses hardline anti-immigrant and right-wing populist positions. Some mainstream politicians argue that the party is so extreme that it should be banned under provisions of the German constitution designed to prevent a repeat of the country's Nazi past.
The Forsa poll also showed that while Merz focuses on foreign policy issues such as the war in Ukraine and Europe's relationship with the US under President Donald Trump, he is facing political problems at home. According to the poll, a majority of Germans are dissatisfied with Chancellor Merz, with 67 percent saying they are "not satisfied" with his performance after 100 days in office. The situation does not look good even though the next German federal election is not due until 2029. / Adapted from "Pamphlet" by "Politico"
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