German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a news conference with Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi in Tunis, Tunisia, March 3, 2017. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives took a one point lead over the Social Democrats (SPD) in the latest poll conducted by Emnid for the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, with nearly seven months to go before federal elections.
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its CSU Bavarian sister party gained one percentage point to reach 33 percent support, compared with an unchanged 32 percent for the SPD in a poll of 1,403 people taken from Feb. 23 to March 1.
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