The lead in voter support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative alliance over the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) shrank to a multi-year low of 4 percentage points, an opinion poll showed on Sunday.
The SPD, which a week ago appointed Martin Schulz as leader, scored 29 percent in the survey published in newspaper Bild am Sonntag – a six-point jump that Bild said was the biggest pollster Emnid had ever recorded for the party.
The jump took SPD support to its highest in over four years. Support for Merkel’s CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the CSU, fell 4 points to 33 …read more
Source: Voice of America
