END FOR MERKEL? Angela would be BEATEN by Martin Schulz if German election was held TODAY
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel would lose an election to ex-EU president Martin Schulz if a snap election was called today, it has been claimed.
By SIOBHAN MCFADYEN
Express.co.uk
Mon, Feb 6, 2017
Social Democrats (SPD) leader and Brexit opponent Mr Schulz, 61, who resigned from his EU presidency last month after earning more than £1million from the taxpayer in five years, is on target to win in the forthcoming elections, according to a new poll.
And 62-year-old Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democratic party (CDU), which has just ratified a law banning refugee families as well as a raft of immigration laws, will be more than decimated by the far-right.
Mr Schulz leads the SPD, which holds a minority share in Mrs Merkel’s ‘grand coalition’.
The SPD has been trailing the conservatives for years in opinion polls and last won an election under Gerhard Schroeder in 2002.
A poll commissioned by National newspaper Bild shows that Mrs Merkel is fast losing support after announcing her candidacy for the CDU in December.
The poll by INSA for Bild newspaper put the SPD on 31 per cent, and the conservatives on 30 per cent.
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