'Not my Chancellor': The AfD wave is growing, and Friedrich Merz may be Germany's next big casualty

Germany’s Friedrich Merz faces another bruising electoral test as voters in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania head to the polls, just weeks after the AfD’s 43.8% breakthrough in Saxony-Anhalt. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, polls have put Merz’s CDU perilously close to the 5% threshold needed to enter parliament. AfD candidate Leif-Erik Holm went further, declaring Merz would be “gone” if the CDU...