Far-Right Resurgence Limits Scholz’s Room for Action in Germany
- Toxic mix of factors fueling anxiety and anger among Germans
- Government backtracks on costly climate protection measures
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Germany’s far right has surged to new highs in opinion polls, tapping into citizens’ discontent over record-high migration, persistently painful inflation and costly climate protection measures to batter Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government.
The Alternative for Germany, or AfD, which denies the impact humans have on global warming and wants to stop more foreigners from coming to Germany, is now tied with Scholz’s Social Democrats as the second-most popular party in the country, polling only behind an alliance of opposition conservatives.