Merkel Bloc Below 20% in German Election Poll for First Time

WATCH: German Chancellor Angela Merkel endorsed her bloc’s candidate, Armin Laschet, during a speech Tuesday before the Bundestag.Source: Bloomberg
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Support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc fell to a record low of 19% with less than three weeks until the national election.

The decline of two percentage points in the latest weekly Forsa poll leaves her CDU/CSU alliance six points behind the surging Social Democrats, who gained a further two points to 25%. The Greens lost one point to 17% in third.