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Greens gain support even after Merkel's nuclear exit

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Greens gain support even after Merkel's nuclear exit
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Angela Merkel's exit from nuclear power has done nothing to stem the tide of support for the environmentalist Greens, who are just three points behind the Chancellor's conservatives, a Wednesday poll showed.

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As the debate over Germany’s energy future rolled on, support for the Greens rose a point to 27 percent, according to the latest Stern-RTL poll, which takes into account public reaction to Merkel's announcement 10 days ago that Germany would quit nuclear power by 2022.

That puts the Greens just three points behind Merkel's Christian Democratic Union and their Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union, who are on 30 percent.

The centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) dropped two points to 22 percent support. The pro-business Free Democrats, who are Merkel's junior coalition partners, gained slightly to clear the hurdle needed to hold seats in parliament with 5 percent.

Eight percent would vote for the socialist Left party and 8 percent would opt for “other parties,” according to the poll.

Under Germany's parliamentary system, the 49 percent commanded by the Greens and the SPD together would give them a majority of the Bundestag seats, allowing them to form a government if the election were held now.

The Local/mdm

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