German polls see closer race between Merkel, Schulz

BERLIN. KAZINFORM German Chancellor Angela Merkel took a narrow lead of 1 percent compared with her rival Martin Schulz in the federal elections in September, according to a poll of the opinion research institute Emnid released on Sunday, Kazinform has learnt from Xinhua news agency,

The result, published in the German newspaper Bild, came after a Infratest dimap's poll put the chance of the opposition Social Democratic Party (SPD) ahead of Merkel's Christian Democratic Party (CDU) on Feb. 23.

This marked the first time in a decade that an opposition party has led the governing party in a poll.

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