Merkel's lead holds as German election nears

2009/09/22 13:00:30 @Reuters: International News

BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's lead in the polls is narrowing days before a federal election, suggesting she could be forced into another "grand coalition" that might struggle to lift Germany out of a deep downturn. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=yj2rCNczC90:mOL_nt8BAsc: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=yj2rCNczC90:mOL_nt8BAsc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=yj2rCNczC90:mOL_nt8BAsc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=yj2rCNczC90:mOL_nt8BAsc:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=yj2rCNczC90:mOL_nt8BAsc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/yj2rCNczC90" height="1" width="1"/
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