# The Political Crisis That Could Topple Germany’s Merz

https://mins.news/en/video/80503

- Bloomberg Television, 2026-09-30 14:42 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2PG2sR3MiM

> Chancellor Friedrich Merz is rapidly losing political room to maneuver as state-election defeats, record-low approval ratings and economic stagnation threaten his tenure. His bet that economic and tax reforms would curb the far-right AfD’s momentum appears to be unraveling, leaving his longer-term survival dependent on a fragile economic recovery.

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