Germany's far-left party leads Berlin poll ahead of state election

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2026-08-05

Berlin (dpa) - Germany's The Left party is leading in Berlin six weeks before the state election, according to a new poll released on Wednesday. The hard-left party was on 21% in the Civey survey commissioned by the Tagesspiegel newspaper, up 2 percentage points from the institute's previous poll in early July. The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), the party of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, remained unchanged on 19%, putting them in sec......

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