FILE PHOTO: A screen that shows the TV debate between German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and her challenger Germany's Social Democratic Party SPD candidate for chancellor Martin Schulz in Berlin, Germany, September 3, 2017. Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland (MG RTL D)/Handout via REUTERS
BERLIN (Reuters) - Firmly on course for re-election, Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday spurned her rival's request for a re-run of a head-to-head television debate in which he failed to dent her opinion poll lead.
With voting taking place on Sept. 24, Martin Schulz's left-leaning Social Democrats (SPD) trail Merkel's conservatives by around 14 percentage points.
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