BERLIN (AP) With Germany's national election just days away, the latest poll suggests trouble for Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition despite her own personal popularity.
A survey released Tuesday by the Forsa Institute for Stern magazine and RTL television show Merkel's Christian Democrats with 39 percent unchanged from last week. But her junior coalition Free Democrats dropped a percentage point to 5 percent.
The margin of error is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points, so Merkel's coalition could still win enough in Sunday's balloting to form a new government. But the results are clearly a warning sign.
The Social Democrats polled 25 percent, the Left Party 10 percent and the Greens 9 percent all unchanged.
