{"id":136797,"date":"2025-02-23T09:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T14:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/23\/germany-afd-set-for-record-gains-as-cdu-struggles-to-secure-majority\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T09:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T14:07:06","slug":"germany-afd-set-for-record-gains-as-cdu-struggles-to-secure-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/23\/germany-afd-set-for-record-gains-as-cdu-struggles-to-secure-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany: AfD set for record gains as CDU struggles to secure majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Voting is underway in what many are calling Germany&rsquo;s most crucial election in decades. The snap election was triggered by the collapse of a three-way coalition led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2019s center-left Social Democratic Party. Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats, appears on track to become the country\u2019s tenth Chancellor. The far-right AfD is expected to secure second place in the election. With widespread concerns over the economy, security, and immigration, only 18% of Germans feel the country is heading in the right direction. France24 Europe Editor Armen Georgian reports from Berlin.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting is underway in what many are calling Germany&rsquo;s most crucial election in decades. The snap election was triggered by the collapse of a three-way coalition led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2019s center-left Social Democratic Party. Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats, appears on track to become the country\u2019s tenth Chancellor. The far-right AfD is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-136797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}