FRANKFURT/BERLIN: Social Democrat Olaf Scholz brushed off a last-gasp attack from his conservative rival in a televised election debate on Sunday, cementing his position as front runner to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel after Germans go to the polls in a week.
"Mr Laschet, that may be the difference between you and me. I'm not doing that because there is an election campaign right now. I have made this demand for years," Scholz said. Earlier, an INSA poll for Bild am Sonntag had put the SPD at 26per cent support, stable from a week ago, while the conservative bloc of Merkel's centre-right Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, added half a percentage point to come in at 21per cent.
FDP party chief Christian Lindner on Sunday rebuffed demands by the CDU to rule out a so-called traffic light coalition with the SPD and the Greens."We will not take orders from this ," he said at a party event. The likelihood of long coalition talks after the vote means Merkel will not be leaving office any time soon. She remains chancellor until a majority of Bundestag lawmakers elect a successor, who is then sworn in.
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