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Support for the center-left and center-right parties in the run up to September's election has leveled out. Support for Merkel's CDU has fallen since the 2017 election.
In the last vote before Germany's general election, the Christian Democratic Union scored a surprisingly clear victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. It was a much-needed boost for Angela Merkel's conservatives.
At the start of an election campaign the big parties field their candidates for the top job. But it's not a done deal until the new parliament, the Bundestag, votes him or her in. DW explains how it works.