{"id":1170,"date":"2026-04-17T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:03:00","slug":"germany-right-wing-afd-leads-in-new-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1170","title":{"rendered":"Germany: right-wing AfD leads in new poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>far-right<\/b>, extremist party <b>&#8220;Alternative for Germany (AfD)&#8221;<\/b> emerges as the leading force in a new <b>poll<\/b> for ZDF, while the Social Democratic Party (SPD) continues to <b>shrink<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, citizens don&#8217;t seem to be convinced by the government&#8217;s <b>interventions<\/b> to deal with the consequences of <b>high energy prices,<\/b> but also by its reform efforts in general.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Political Barometer, if there were <b>an election on Sunday<\/b>, the <b>AfD would win it with 26%<\/b> (unchanged from the previous count), leaving the <b>Christian Union (CDU\/CSU) in second place with 25%<\/b> (-1). It would be followed by the <b>Greens<\/b> with 14% (-1), the <b>SPD<\/b> with 12 (-1) and the <b>Left<\/b> with 11% (+1). In the same vein, 73% responded <b>negatively<\/b> to the question of whether the government&#8217;s reforms constitute a significant contribution to solving the country&#8217;s problems, while only 23% responded positively. On rising energy prices, the government is doing &#8220;too little&#8221;, says 81%, &#8220;as much as it should&#8221;, estimates 11%, and &#8220;too much&#8221; 3%.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, <b>91%<\/b> of respondents believe that the <b>17 cents\/litre fuel rebate<\/b> measure will not eventually reach consumers. Overall, two-thirds of respondents rate the coalition government&#8217;s cooperation as &#8220;rather poor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In response to a question about whether Germany should <b>support the US militarily<\/b> in the war against Iran, more<b> than 93% say no. <\/b>In another question on <b>foreign policy,<\/b> 74% say <b>Victor Orb\u00e1n&#8217;s defeat in Hungary<\/b> would facilitate <b>cooperation<\/b> within the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The far-right extremist party &#8220;Alternative for Germany (AfD)&#8221; is the leading force in a new poll for ZDF, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}