Merkel's support dips, regional ally resigns

2009/09/03 09:59:39 @Reuters: International News

BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a double blow on Thursday as a senior party ally in east Germany resigned his post and a new poll showed support for her conservatives at a three-month low weeks before an election. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=qwDEPecxG1E:SlkCKdjCh0M:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=qwDEPecxG1E:SlkCKdjCh0M:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=qwDEPecxG1E:SlkCKdjCh0M:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=qwDEPecxG1E:SlkCKdjCh0M:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=qwDEPecxG1E:SlkCKdjCh0M:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/qwDEPecxG1E" height="1" width="1"/
[ VIEW FULL COVERAGE @Reuters: International News ]