Frontrunner Scholz Solidifies Advantage In German TV Debate

‘Most Merkel-like candidate’: SPD’s Scholz wins final German election TV debate

With just under a week to go until election day, German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz bolstered his position as frontrunner in a final three-way televised debate on Sunday, with the race to succeed Angela Merkel in a dead heat.

[Ticker] German election: SPD's Olaf Scholz wins final TV debate

The centre-left Social Democrats and Greens presented a united front in the third and final TV debate, with a snap poll seeing the SPD's Olaf Scholz as the clear winner, Deutsche Welle reports. A Forsa poll released shortly after the debate showing that 42 percent of viewers thought that the Social Democrat had won the debate, followed by 27 percent for CDU's Armin Laschet, and 25 percent for Annalena Baerbock.

Olaf Scholz seen as winner of final TV debate before German election: Survey

Social Democrats’ candidate for chancellor says he prefers to form coalition government with Greens - Anadolu Agency

SPD's Scholz wins third TV debate as German election draws close

FRANKFURT/BERLIN: Social Democrat Olaf Scholz brushed off a last-gasp attack from his conservative rival in a televised election debate on Sunday, cementing his position as front runner to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel after Germans go to the polls in a week. The debate, the last of three ahead of Germa

German Candidates Clash Over Tax, Minimum Wage In Close Race

FRANKFURT, Germany: The three candidates bidding to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor clashed over taxes and pocketbook issues in a third televised debate Sunday a week before the election.

German candidates clash over tax, minimum wage in close race

The three candidates hoping to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor have clashed over pocketbook issues in a third televised debate