'Merkel is back': virus crisis boosts Germany's centre-right

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A former scientist, Merkel's clear grasp of the facts and cool-headed manner in the COVID-19 crisis have reassured an anxious nation.

Angela Merkel's long-struggling conservatives have rebounded in the polls thanks to the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis and widespread faith in the outgoing German chancellor's ability to manage the upheaval.

"At the end of her time in office comes the greatest political challenge of her career," it said -- and it seems Germans like what they're seeing. But since then Merkel has given a flurry of briefings and even made a television appeal to the nation to urge citizens to take the social distancing measures seriously.

Her own tests have come back negative, and the chancellor is running the nation by video link in the meantime.

 

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