Merkel OUT: Shock poll shows almost half of Germans want Chancellor to RESIGN
ANGELA Merkel is fighting for her political life with almost half of German voters wanting the Chancellor to quit, according to a new poll.
By TOM PARFITT
Express.co.uk
Fri, Jun 22, 2018
The long-running leader has called an emergency summit with the European Union this weekend as her own government threatens to bring her down.
She is at loggerheads with her Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, who wants Germany to turn away asylum seekers from its border.
And a new YouGov survey showed 43 percent of German respondents want Mrs Merkel to leave her post.
Another 42 per cent said they wanted the veteran politician to stay on, while 15 per cent did not give a response either way.
And nearly a third of those surveyed – 32 per cent – said they believed the immigration row could topple Merkel’s fragile government.
But 45 per cent said the coalition would live to fight another day.
The opinion poll was published as the EU prepares to hold an emergency summit on the migrant crisis on Sunday.
The meeting in Brussels is widely seen as a desperate bid by EU leaders to prop up Mrs Merkel, who has been in power since 2005.
Officials from member states including Germany, Italy, France and Spain are due to attend the conference in the Belgian capital.
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