Syrian migrant Mahmoud Hmouech says hostility toward foreigners is rising in Germany as the far-right AfD leads national polls ahead of Sunday's election ▻ ↧ Merz's fate in the balance as second eastern German state goes to t... Germany's struggling Chancellor Friedrich Merz will be relying on the popular centre-left state premier in the eastern region of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to keep out the far right in an election on Sunday which may decide his political survival.