Berlin: Chancellor of the Chancellor of his true party Merkel has maintained its position as the strongest party attended local elections in the North Germany state, two weeks before the national election where he struggled in the poll, the results showed Monday.
Sunday elections for the lower local council in the state of the lower Saxony, in northwest German, can offer several Christian Democrats cheering even though such sounds are very limited to the national picture, where the polls today show a little CDU behind the Democrats left in the middle .
CDU has been the strongest party in the selection of local councils in Saxony which is lower for around 40 years, although state governments are often led by social democrats, and now.
In Sunday, it takes 31.7% of the votes, down from 34.3% five years ago, the results showed.
Social Democrats are second with 30%, down a little from 31.2% in 2016.
The green environment increases their part of the voting to 15.9% from 10.9%.
Three candidates for Chancellor Laschet Armin Cdu, Social Democrats Olaf Scholz and Green Candlock Annalena Baerbock faced Sunday night in three broadcast debates.
A pair of Flash polls after the debate suggested that it was likely not to bring a decisive turnover in the race where Scholz, Chancellor and Finance Minister in Merkel’s government had strengthened its relative popularity in the middle of its rival.
Both showed respondents scored Scholz scores as the best players.
The last debate will be held next week, a week before the September 26 parliamentary election.
Merkel announced in 2018 that he would not look for the fifth term.