Leading SPD mayors back coalition with Merkel, poll shows


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  • Monday, 19 Feb 2018

Chancellor Angela Merkel during a news conference with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Berlin, Germany, February 16, 2018. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

BERLIN (Reuters) - Leading Social Democrat (SPD) mayors favour joining a coalition government with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, a poll showed on Sunday, boosting the prospects of the centre-left party backing the alliance in a ballot starting this week.

The SPD's 464,000 members vote in a postal ballot from Tuesday on whether their party should go ahead with the coalition agreement its leaders clinched this month to renew their alliance with Merkel's CDU/CSU bloc.

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