Polls Numbers Look Bad For German Chancellor Angela Merkel When Voters Go To The Polls Later This Year

DW: Schulz overtakes Merkel in opinion poll as favorite for German chancellor

SPD candidate Martin Schulz would receive 16 percent more votes than current CDU Chancellor Angela Merkel, a survey showed. The SPD has benefited since Schulz was nominated as the party's candidate for the Chancellery.

German voters would elect the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate Martin Schulz as chancellor if the country were to hold direct elections today, an opinion poll conducted for the German broadcaster ARD revealed on Thursday.

Schulz would receive 50 percent of votes cast while Angela Merkel, the current chancellor and head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), would receive 34 percent of the vote. However, even when they are called on to cast ballots in the September parliamentary elections, Germans will not directly vote for the chancellor.

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WNU Editor: My contacts and readers in Germany are all telling me the same thing .... many Germans are upset with her open borders policy when it comes to immigration, and while many on the left may support these measures, her base does not. Adding fuel to the fire that will hurt her politically are reports like this one .... Angela Merkel under more pressure over refugee policy as it is revealed migrants committed 142,500 crimes in Germany during the first six months of 2016 (Daily Mail)