(Angus Reid Consultants - CPOD Global Scan) - The coalition of the Christian-Democratic Union (CDU) and the Bavarian Christian-Social Party (CSU) is still the top political group in Germany, according to a poll by Infratest-Dimap. 40 per cent of respondents would vote for the alliance in the next election to the Federal Diet.

The ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD) of chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is in second place with 32 per cent, followed by the Green Party (Grune), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS).

In September, the CDU-CSU coalition held a 12 per cent advantage over the ruling SPD. The lead is down to eight per cent in the last survey. The alliance has quarrelled over which candidate should challenge Schroeder in the next parliamentary ballot, tentatively scheduled for September 2006.

The CDU faced a new crisis last week, as a series of investigative reports found that secretary-general Laurenz Meyer continued to receive payments from energy company RWE after he was appointed as a party official in 2000.

On Dec. 20, CDU leader Angela Merkel said Meyer would be allowed to remain in his position after he "admitted a mistake." The secretary-general decided to donate the money he received from RWE—around $110,000 U.S.—to the SOS Kinderdoerfer children's charity.

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