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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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BERLIN | Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:03pm EDT

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have enough support to form a center-right coalition with the business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP), a new poll showed on Tuesday.

The poll by Allensbach for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper put support for Merkel's conservative bloc down 1 point at 35 percent and the FDP up a point at 13.5 percent.

Their combined score of 48.5 percent exceeds that of the other three major parties -- the SPD, Greens and Left party -- put together.

The SPD was up 1.5 points at 24 percent, the Greens down one point to 11 percent and the Left down half a point to 11.5 percent.

(Writing by Noah Barkin)
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