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Scholz Takes Big Lead In Chancellor Polling, SPD Draw Level w/Greens

GERMANY

The latest opinion polling from FGW will make happy reading for Germany's centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) as it shows them drawing level with the environmentalist Greens in joint-second place while the party's chancellor candidate - current Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz - now holds a commanding lead in polling assessing respondents' preferred chancellor.

  • Federal election poll :CDU-CSU : 26% (-2), SPD: 19% (+3), Grüne: 19% (-2), FDP: 11% (+1), AFD: 11%, Die Linke: 7%, FGW, 12/08/21. Chgs w/ 27-29 July.
  • Preferred Chancellor poll: Scholz (SPD): 44% (+10), Laschet (CDU): 21% (-8), Baerbock (Grüne): 16% (-4) FGW, 12/08/21, chgs w/ 27-29 July
  • The 19% support recorded by the SPD in the FGW poll is the third this week showing the party at that level. The last time the SPD reached 19% support was February 2019.
  • Given the margin of error of 3%+/- in this poll it puts the CDU, SPD. and Greens within potential reach of one another. At present no two parties would be able to secure a majority, requiring a three party coalition.

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