Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader Martin Schulz gives a statement after meeting Benoit Hamon, French Socialist party 2017 presidential candidate in Berlin, Germany, March 28, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) narrowed the gap with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, a weekly poll showed on Wednesday, less than six months before a federal election in Europe's biggest economy.
The Forsa poll for Stern magazine and RTL television showed support for Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party (CSU) stable at 34 percent while the SPD under new leader Martin Schulz gained 1 percentage point on the week to reach 32 percent.
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