German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been bumped from the top spot in a regular poll of the country’s favourite politician for the first time in two years.
Public broadcaster ARD says Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier had an approval rating of 70 per cent, one point ahead of Merkel.
The gap is within the 3.1-percentage-point margin of error in the telephone poll of 1,008 voters conducted Feb. 3-4.
The results released late Thursday also had the anti-euro party Alternative fuer Deutschland at 6 per cent in advance of the May 25 elections for the European Parliament. That’s well ahead of the 3 per cent threshold for parliamentary seats.
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