Irish Examiner view: History will judge US interventions harshly

US intervention in Germany’s election was not a good idea, and it will be ill-judged as history comes to mark the changes of this decade

While conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz is expected to be elected chancellor in Germany, psephologists will be studying how many votes Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) secures. Picture: Michael Probst/AP

Most of the attention in the German federal elections tomorrow will be on the performance of the rightist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), which has been consistently polling in second place.

While the conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz is expected to be elected chancellor ahead of his rival incumbent, the SDP’s Olaf Scholz, in a coalition government, it is how many votes can be garnered by the new force in Europe’s biggest economy that will have analysts, psephologists, and commentators working overtime.