Teenagers pass election posters of Social Democratic top candidate Peer Steinbrueck (SPD) (L) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) in Hamburg, September 17, 2013. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer
BERLIN (Reuters) - Angela Merkel's centre-right coalition slipped behind Germany's combined centre-left opposition parties in a poll published on Wednesday, indicating her conservatives would be unable to form a majority with their Free Democrat partners.
In an Allensbach poll for the conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily, the chancellor's conservatives shed a point to 39 percent while the FDP were steady at 6 percent, giving a combined 45 percent for the centre-right.
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