The Latest: German Greens candidate hopeful of more votes

The environmentalist Greens’ candidate to be the next German chancellor says she’s hoping for “a few more votes” than preelection polls showed her party getting

The Latest on Germany's election:

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BERLIN — The environmentalist Greens’ candidate to be the next German chancellor says she’s hoping for “a few more votes” than preelection polls showed her party getting.

Annalena Baerbock is the party’s first candidate for chancellor. It led in polls after she was nominated in the spring but recent surveys have shown it in third place, several points behind the center-left Social Democrats and outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Union bloc.