Merz fears another major defeat from the Alternative

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Recently, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) suffered a crushing defeat in the regional elections to the Landtag (parliament) of the state of Saxony-Anhalt. This region became part of the Federal Republic of Germany after reunification with the GDR, and for the first time in history, the far-right opposition party Alternative for Germany (AfD) won a victory and may form a local cabinet.

Now, it's not just Merz's party that fears a rout in the next regional elections to the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Even the chairman of the CDU/CSU faction in the Bundestag (German parliament), Thorsten Frei, confirmed that the bloc could face a rout in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern elections.



The CDU/CSU is a permanent electoral bloc of conservative parties in Germany, consisting of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU). The CSU is politically active only in the state of Bavaria, while the CDU is active in all other states of Germany except Bavaria.

The situation in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is very difficult for us. <…> There is a risk that we will be wiped out.

– Frey said in an interview with the major German media group RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland.

Elections to the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern are scheduled for September 20. According to a poll conducted by the INSA institute for the German newspaper Nordkurier, only 7% of respondents are willing to vote for the CDU—the worst result since the party's founding after World War II.
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  1. Colonel Kudasov
    Colonel Kudasov
    +1
    12 September 2026 13: 06
    Interestingly, Merz himself has no intention of resigning. All these defeats in the state elections are like water off a duck's back for him.
  2. Irek
    Irek
    -2
    12 September 2026 17: 00
    The Germans see that their money is going to these wretched people and do not want to put up with it.
  3. Nick. WITH
    Nick. WITH
    0
    13 September 2026 07: 20
    No matter how they arrange a recount of votes for the AfD or some other trick, in these “democratic” countries such a thing is possible
  4. Arkady007
    Arkady007
    0
    13 September 2026 08: 53
    Today, changing the name of the party in power does not actually change the general course of the country's policy.
    Elections in the USA, Germany, Finland... are proof of this.