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SanAndreasX said:

There's also Alice Weidel, who seems to be a likely candidate for Germany's next Chancellor given AfD's surge, and is pro-Russia. Olaf Scholz is hanging around at 28 percent in polls. 

Hold on, that's not how it works in Germany.

The AfD had surged to about 22% in polls, but slightly declined since then, so it's hovering around 20% with a bad outlook now. That's because there has been a new party founded this year that combines some left extremism with a lot of right extrimism and has siphoned off a portion of the AfD voters as a result. In order for an AFD chancellor to happen, the party needs 50% of the votes because all democratic parties have ruled out any form of coalition on a nationwide level.

The 28% for Scholz are likely for the question who Germany's next chancellor should be, which is nowhere near as important as the parties' poll numbers. Scholz's SPD hovers around 15% since a long time.

While this means that Scholz's days as chancellor are numbered, the predictable next chancellor will be a conservative from the CDU (christ-democrats) because they lead in the polls with just above 30%. The prefered coalition option of the CDU (the so-called liberal FDP which is actually primarily about taking money from the poor to funnel it to the rich) will be unavailable because the FDP is tanking so hard, so the next best thing in line is the SPD which has shown time and time again that it is a devoted underling of the conservatives. Both together will likely combine for enough seats in the next election, expected to happen in September 2025.