Greens Seize Early Lead In Germany

“Angela Merkel’s conservative alliance fell behind the Greens to its lowest poll rating on record yesterday, hours after naming its candidate to succeed her as chancellor of Germany,” the Times of London reports.

“The Greens seized a seven-point lead as voters appeared to recoil from the centre right’s new figurehead, Armin Laschet.”

“The swing away from Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian affiliate, which are jointly known as the Union, is one of the sharpest in modern German history.”