BERLIN (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 24th September, 2021) The German Social Democrats remain ahead of their main electoral rivals, the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, by the skin of their teeth, with 25% to 23% of the vote, respectively, as the latest ZDF-Politbarometer poll showed on Thursday, three days before the election.
The survey, conducted over the past three days by Forschungsgruppe Wahlen pollter, also puts the Greens third with 16.5%. The liberal Free Democratic Party received 11% of the vote, followed by the right-wing Alternative for Germany with 10%. The Left party comes next with 6%.
Germany will hold the Federal elections on Sunday, after which the winning party will appoint the federal chancellor to head the government and replace outgoing Angela Merkel.
