German Conservatives Drop in Poll After Bungled Far-Right Vote
Friedrich Merz speaks at the Christian Democratic Union convention in Berlin, Germany, on Feb. 3.
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Support for Germany’s center-right CDU/CSU alliance led by Friedrich Merz dropped in a new poll, while the Greens and two smaller far-left parties gained.
With less than three weeks before the election, Merz’s bloc lost two points and stood at 28% in a Forsa survey compared with a week earlier.