Populist AfD Leader Alice Weidel Surges to Top of German Chancellor Polls Ahead of February Elections

"The leader of the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice Weidel has surged to the top of the polls of preferred chancellors in the upcoming February elections.

In a survey conducted by the INSA polling firm for the BILD newspaper, AfD leader Alice Weidel surged by three points over the previous week to 24 points, surpassing the leader of the centrist neo-liberal Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Friedrich Merz, who fell by one point to 20 per cent since the previous week.
Meanwhile, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the current candidate for the leftist Social Democrat Party (SPD) languishes in third place, falling one point from last week to 15 per cent support. Scholz is followed by his Economic Minister Robert Habeck, the chancellor candidate for the Greens, at 14 per cent.
The surge in the polls for Weidel came amid the endorsement of her party by X owner Elon Musk, who declared this week that “only the AfD can save Germany”." Breitbart