Election campaign posters showing German Social Democratic Party, SPD, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, top, and his challenger ...

Polling data in home town of Friedrich Merz, Germany’s frontrunner to be next chancellor, are worry for main parties ...

With his CDU leading in the polls but his personal approval ratings lukewarm, the former corporate high-flyer and hobby pilot has invited supporters to his picturesque western hometown of Brilon.