"After just six months in power, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's coalition is facing infighting, policy deadlock and sliding poll ratings, undermining its efforts to take on the rising far right. It marks a difficult start for the conservative politician who ran on bold pledges of reviving the stagnant economy, overhauling the threadbare military and toughening immigration policy after years of drift under the previous government."
"The winners of February's general election, Merz's centre-right CDU/CSU bloc now find themselves neck-and-neck in the polls with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which came second in the poll and is now the largest opposition party. Merz's junior coalition partners, the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) of ex-chancellor Olaf Scholz, have seen their popularity slide further after a terrible election performance, and now sit around 13-15 percent in polls."
After six months in power, Chancellor Friedrich Merz's coalition faces infighting, policy deadlock and sliding poll ratings that undermine efforts to counter the rising far right. Merz campaigned on reviving a stagnant economy, overhauling a threadbare military and toughening immigration policy, but those pledges have not produced decisive outcomes. The CDU/CSU bloc now stands neck-and-neck with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), while junior partner SPD support has fallen to roughly 13–15 percent. Many citizens are dissatisfied or disappointed with the government's work so far, saying it focuses on migration at the expense of the economy, education and security. The coalition also failed to agree on key judicial appointments after Merz failed to win a first-round parliamentary vote.
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