Merkel's party "in free fall", poll shows, as Greens gain


  • World
  • Wednesday, 24 Mar 2021

German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, March 24, 2021. Kay Nietfeld/Pool via REUTERS

BERLIN (Reuters) - Support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives has slumped three percentage points in a week to its lowest in over a year, a poll released on Wednesday showed, with the ecologist Greens just four points behind them.

Facing a federal election in September without Merkel, who is standing down after four terms, her Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian CSU sister party - together dubbed the 'Union' - have dropped to 26%, the Forsa poll showed.

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