Merkel`s alliance in turmoil ahead of key polls
(WorldNews Europe)

FRANKFURT • Corruption allegations and a series of coronavirus pandemic setbacks have plunged German Chancellor Angela Merkel`s conservatives into turmoil, just days before two regional polls kick off a key election year. Support for Dr Merkel`s CDU/CSU alliance has fallen to a one-year low at around 30 per cent, surveys show, as Germans sour on its pandemic crisis management. `The corona bonus of the largest ruling party is melting away,` said the top-selling Bild newspaper. Dr Merkel`s centre-right Christian Democrats and their Bavarian CSU sister party are bracing themselves for a drubbing on Sunday, when Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wuerttemberg states choose new...