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Reuters: Merkel’s conservatives widen lead three months before German vote

Published June 25, 2017 at 1:36 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a joint press conference with France's President following the European Union leaders summit at the European Council, in Brussels, on June 23.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives widened their lead over the Social Democrats (SPD) to 15 points in a weekly opinion poll by the Emnid institute published on Sunday, three months before the Sept. 24 election.

The Christian Democrats (CDU) and its CSU Bavarian sister party were steady at 39 percentage points in the Emnid poll published in Bild am Sonntag newspaper, while the SPD fell one percentage point to 24.