The Greens have overtaken Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives to become the most popular party in Germany, an opinion poll released on Saturday showed, while her Socialist SPD coalition partners fell to an all-time low. The poll, asking voters which party they would back in a national election, showed the Greens at 27% support, one point ahead of Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc. It suggests a trend which saw the Greens surge past the SPD into second place in a European election a week ago has only intensified since.
