Green Party Extends Its Lead Over Merkel After SPD Resignation

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Germany’s Green Party has a three-point lead over Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats in the first national opinion poll since the country’s junior coalition chief resigned.

The Greens stayed at 27%, while Merkel’s CDU-CSU alliance lost three percentage points at 24%, according to the Forsa GmbH poll, reported by German broadcasters RTL and n-tv.