The AfD ranks have a immense euphoria. ‘We have reached the CDU/CSU. Thank you all!" wrote Alice Weidel, co-chair of the Alternatives for Germany, on X.
In the next entry, widespread by Parliamentary AfD, she went even further. "AfD is now equal to CDU/CSU in polls! People do not want another left-wing government where CDU/CSU will let SPD and Greens to dictate politics. It's time for a real civic political phrase!" she wrote. “There is no way to bypass AfD!” she concluded.
Other AfD members are not happy either. Bernd Baumann, president of the party's parliamentary club, is besides convinced that this is only the beginning.
— We will become much stronger — and the CDU will be weaker. The voters will realize that the urgently needed policy change is only possible with us,” he says in an interview with the “Bild”.
“No wonder”
The poll was besides referred to by Beatrix von Storch, vice-president of the AfD parliamentary group, calling on rivals to change their political course. “When will the CDU realize this? Turn around. The dam must disappear," she wrote.
Markus Frohnmaier, vice-president of the AfD parliamentary group and trustee of Weidel, is of akin opinion. — Friedrich Merz impudently deceived the public on the Debt brake and migration policy — now he is ricochetting fraud, says the editor of “Bild”.
He believes that AfD is on its way to becoming the new, only number 1 group in Germany. “This is not a snapshot, this is the beginning of the turning point. In the next fewer weeks, we will leave the CDU/CSU behind," he adds.
Leif-Erik Holm, an economical policy spokesperson and AfD leader in Meck-Pomm, besides does not hide satisfaction. “ It is no wonder that AfD first caught up with CDU/CSU,” he says.
He claims that Friedrich Merz is responsible. “His full surrender to the SPD shows the public that Merz does not want the essential reforms, but only to presume the office of Chancellor. And that, of course, makes us happy, he adds.
