CDU Faces Internal Crisis and Electoral Challenges Amid Rising AfD Support

Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is grappling with internal divisions and electoral anxiety as the far-right AfD gains ground. Critics argue that Western policy errors have contributed to this political shift, threatening the party's stability ahead of upcoming elections.

12 Sept, 04:00 — 12 Sept, 04:00

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The GuardianMostly Factual2h ago

Firewall compromised: has Friedrich Merz blown ‘democracy’s last shot’?

Many fear chancellor is wrong man for the job at a time when Germany’s defences against far right are crumbling A cataclysm. A 9.0 earthquake. A five-alarm fire. A bitter rejection of Germany’s joyous reunification three decades ago, and a threat to the democratic postwar order. Sizing up the repercussions of last weekend’s win for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party in the former communist state of Saxony-Anhalt, German commentators expressed a sense of doom, panic and helplessne...

By Deborah Cole in Berlin

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