FILE PHOTO: Olaf Scholz, who says he has been proposed by his Social Democratic Party (SPD) leadership as their candidate for the Chancellor at next year's elections, attends a news conference in Berlin, Germany August 10, 2020. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
BERLIN (Reuters) - The decision of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) to nominate Finance Minister Olaf Scholz as chancellor candidate has given the centre-left party a popularity boost, helping them to surpass the Greens in a poll published on Wednesday.
The SPD on Monday proposed Scholz, the party's most popular politician, to run to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel in next year's national election, when her fourth and final term is expected to end.
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