Poll Shows 73% of German Voters ‘Feel Deceived’ by Incoming Chancellor Merz’s Spending Spree Plans – Right-Wing AFD Party Keeps Rising and It’s Within 4 Points of ‘Conservative’ CDU

For a distant observer, it was widely expected that the leader of the most voted party in the latest German elections, Friedrich Merz of the mainstream ‘Conservative’ party CDU was going to make sure nothing changed in the floundering former European power.

And, while elected promising reform, Merz immediately courted the current parties, forming the train-wreck administration of Olaf Scholz, the least popular German Chancellor in decades.

So, he is negotiating with Scholz SPD to...