German Greens get early edge to succeed Merkel

Bloomberg

Germany’s Greens are in position to make history, surging past Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc in the race to replace the four-term chancellor after September’s election.
The party that’s vowing to increase spending and tighten controls on the finance industry — which finished a distant sixth in the last national vote in 2017 — held a seven percentage-point lead in a poll published just hours after Christian Democratic Union leader Armin Laschet secured the conservative nomination in a bruising battle.

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