# Poll finds 45% of eastern German voters back AfD, just 12% support Merz’s party

https://mins.news/en/item/51652

- TASS, 2026-09-09 16:06 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://tass.com/world/2184991

> A Forsa poll commissioned by RTL and NTV puts support for the AfD in eastern Germany at 45%, 30 percentage points ahead of The Left. Friedrich Merz’s CDU has 12%, while the SPD and Greens each have 9%. Only 7% approve of Merz’s performance, compared with 91% who disapprove.

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