Pro-business conservative Merz is most popular candidate for Merkel's party post: poll
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The pro-business economic liberal Friedrich Merz is the most popular among voters of the three candidates vying to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel as leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU), a poll showed on Thursday.