German election exit polls showing huge gains for far-right – What to make of AfD success?
Germany’s exit poll results for the 2025 German Federal Election are indicating the far-right party the AfD has doubled its vote share to around 20 per cent and that is in line with a “broader trend throughout Europe”, according to one expert.
Dr Jana Puglierin, of the European Council on Foreign Relations, told the BBC: “I think Germany has become a bit more normal, we have been an outlier in Europe with relatively small numbers of the far-right.”
Warning that this is “worrying me greatly”, Dr Puglierin warned that a new coalition government will have to deliver and warned that it is “crucial” for CDU leader Friedrich Merz’s bloc to secure at least 30 per cent of the vote or risk opening “the field for possible competitors”.