Angela Merkel in ‘Political Earthquake’ as Right-Wing AfD Overtakes Her in Poll
SputnikNews.com
01.09.2016
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been dealt a heavy blow after the latest poll showed the populist right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) overtaking her in a poll in the home state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ahead of regional election on September 4.
With just days to go, a poll of voting intention in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern by Insa on behalf of Cicero magazine puts AfD on 23 percent, with Merkel’s CDU party on 20 percent. If the actual vote swings that way, it would be — as Cicero put it in a headline — an “existential crisis for the CDU/CSU alliance and a “political earthquake” in German politics.
In the latest poll, commissioned for media outlets Ostsee-Zeitung, Nordkurier, Schweriner Volkszeitung and NDR, almost one in four will vote for either the right-wing populist AfD or the far-right ultranationalist National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD).
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