Germany’s Merz slips behind far right in poll after angering friends and foes

By Thomas Escritt

BERLIN (Reuters) -Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives slipped into second place behind Germany’s far right in a poll marking his hundredth day in office after a tough summer in which a botched judicial appointment and a reversal on supplying Israel with arms alienated foes and allies alike.

The Forsa poll, which put the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on 26%, two points higher than the conservatives, comes ahead of a political season that will be dominated by…