BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's chances of preserving her centre-right coalition were in doubt less than a week before a federal election, with a new anti-euro party rising in the polls and her current partner reeling from a regional setback in Bavaria.
An emphatic victory in Bavaria on Sunday for the Christian Social Union (CSU), sister party to Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), was overshadowed by recent poll gains for the Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) and the collapse of the Free Democrats (FDP) in the rich southern state.
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