Germany's Unsettling Slide to the Right The current German elections are a sobering reminder of the country's increasingly polarized politics.
In Berlin and Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is facing potential losses, marking a stark reversal for the party that has been struggling to regain traction.
Polls suggest the CDU could lose power in Berlin to Die Linke (The Left), while the far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party continues its upward trajectory.