Saturday, September 18, 2021

#GERMANY: Social Democrat Leader Scholz Holds Lead After Strong Debate Performance

[world politics news]
 

Who will succeed Angela Merkel as Germany's chancellor? The candidates to become Germany’s next leader faced off in a TV debate, and Social Democrat Olaf Scholz produced a solid performance to maintain his hold as the front-runner. 

Early snap polls suggested that Scholz did enough in the three-way debate to maintain a slim but solid lead over his rivals in the final debate of the election campaign. 

Just moments after the 90-minute debate ended on Germany's public broadcasters, an Infratest dimap poll found that 41% of the 1,500 viewers asked found Scholz the most convincing, a long way ahead of the Christian Democratic Union's (CDU) candidate Armin Laschet and the Green party's Annalena Baerbock, on 27% and 25% respectively. 

[FULL STORY HERE]

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