Support for Germany’s Social Democrats jumped to the highest level in almost four years in a poll that underscores the party’s revival after it picked Martin Schulz as Chancellor Angela Merkel’s election challenger.
Buoyed by its choice of the former European Parliament president as candidate to unseat Merkel, the SPD climbed five percentage points to 26 percent, the most since the last election in 2013, while the chancellor’s Christian Democratic-led bloc slipped two points to 35 percent, according to the weekly Forsa poll published Wednesday. ...
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