Kohl trails in new poll

Bonn - German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's conservative Christian Democrats have narrowed the gap but still trail the opposition …

Bonn - German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's conservative Christian Democrats have narrowed the gap but still trail the opposition Social Democrats by six percentage points, according to a leading voter survey released yesterday.

With elections due in September, the monthly Politbarometer survey put the chancellor's CDU/CSU grouping on 36 per cent to the SPD's 42 per cent.

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