German election: SPD makes major gains against Merkel’s CDU
04 September 2021 |
5:16 pm
With less than four weeks to go, a leading opinion poll has seen the downward trend of the ruling CDU continue. The conservatives have been overtaken by the center-left SPD, which has seen its best poll result in years.
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