German Chancellor and head of the Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) Angela Merkel waves during a CDU election campaign event in Potsdam September 16, 2013. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right coalition and Germany's combined opposition are running neck and neck, a poll showed on Tuesday, five days before a national election that will decide who steers Europe's largest economy through the next four years.
The Forsa poll for Stern magazine showed Merkel's conservatives still well ahead of other parties on 39 percent, unchanged from the previous survey, and their current coalition partner, the liberal Free Democrats (FDP), were on 5 percent, down one point and only just enough to enter parliament.
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