Poll: Germany's far-right AfD extends lead over Merz's conservatives
13.11.2026,
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is maintaining its strong lead in opinion polls ahead of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc, according to a poll released on Friday.
If a parliamentary election were held this Sunday, the AfD would get 28%, two percentage points more than a week earlier. The conservative bloc of Merz's Christian Democrats and the Christian Social Union would have 22%, one point less than the previous poll.
The Social Democrats - currently in coalition with the conservatives - are also one point down, at 13%. The Greens would gain two percentage points and, at 15%, would rank third. The Left falls one percentage point to 10%.
According to the poll, the governing coalition would not hold a majority of seats in the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag.
For the poll, 1,297 randomly selected eligible voters were surveyed by telephone and online during November 10-12.
Zemmour joins 2027 French presidential race vowing to expel unemployed foreigners
Far-right politician Eric Zemmour has formally entered next year’s French presidential race. He is promising a sharp cut in immigration, and the expulsion of foreigners who are out of work, even if they live in France legally.
Issued on: 11/11/2026 -
Speaking on television on Tuesday, the leader of the Reconquête! party said he was standing to “preserve a French France so that our future is French”.
Zemmour, who came fourth in the 2022 election, wants “2 million fewer immigrants by the end of the five-year term”.
Deport foreign nationals
To get there, he plans to deport foreign nationals serving prison sentences, along with “foreign unemployed people who have been out of work for more than six months”, regardless of their residency status.
The 68-year-old former journalist, who went into politics five years ago, had said in mid-September that he would run. At the time, however, his team insisted this was not yet a formal declaration.
Far-right competition
His candidacy puts him up against a much bigger name on the far right. Marine Le Pen of the anti-immigration National Rally is widely expected to come top in the first round. She sees next year’s vote, when President Emmanuel Macron steps down, as her best chance yet of winning power.
Le Pen, who lost to Macron in both the 2017 and 2022 run-offs, was thrown a lifeline in July when an appeals court shortened her ban from public office over an embezzlement conviction, clearing the path for her to stand.
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