FILE PHOTO: A car passes near an election poster showing Olaf Scholz, German Minister of Finance and top candidate of the The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who holds a letter for postal voting in Hanover, Germany August 17, 2021. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer
August 24, 2021
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) have pulled ahead of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives for the first time in 15 years, according to an opinion poll published on Tuesday, just a month before the country’s federal election.
The SPD is up 2 percentage points compared to a week ago on 23%, while Merkel’s conservatives slipped a point to 22% and the Greens are down a point at 18%, according to the Forsa poll for RTL/NTV conducted on Aug. 17-23 among 1,532 people.
(Reporting by Emma Thomasson; Editing by Riham Alkousaa)
