What percentage of voters are still undecided in the German election?

40% of voters are still undecided, which is an increase from 35% in 2017 and 24% in 2013.

Who are the leading candidates in the German election?

The leading candidates are Armin Laschet from the centre-right conservatives and Olaf Scholz from the centre-left Social Democrats.

What coalition options are available for the leading candidates?

Scholz could form a coalition with the Greens and FDP or a left-leaning alliance with the Linke, while Laschet could also attempt a coalition with the FDP and Greens.

What are the main reasons for voter indecision?

Two out of three respondents indicated that none of the top candidates were convincing, while others felt that many developments could occur before election day.

What are the current polling percentages for the main parties?

As of now, the Social Democrats are at 25%, the conservatives at 21%, the Greens at 17%, and both the FDP and AfD at 11%.

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German Election Too Close to Call as Many Voters Still Undecided

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Posted on September 15, 2021

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Germany's Election Race Tightens as Record Number of Voters Remain Undecided

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s federal election is too close to call as the number of still undecided voters hit a record high less than two weeks before the poll, in which centre-right Chancellor Angela Merkel is not seeking a fifth term, a survey showed on Tuesday.

The survey by the Allensbach research institute for the conservative newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung found that only 60% of voters who are determined to participate in the election have yet decided which party they will support.

This means that 40% of the voters are still undecided, up from 35% at this point of the election campaign in 2017 and from just 24% in 2013.

As the most important reason for their indecision, roughly two out of three respondents said none of the top candidates running to replace Merkel as chancellor was convincing.

Some respondents also said their indecision stemmed from the fact that a lot can still happen before election day. Others said they were unsure how the party they were inclined to support might behave in future coalition talks.

A Forsa poll for RTL/n-tv televison published on Tuesday showed Merkel’s conservatives with their top candidate Armin Laschet had gained two percentage points on the week to reach 21%.

But the centre-left Social Democrats and their top candidate Olaf Scholz, current vice chancellor and finance minister, remained in pole position with a stable 25%.

The Greens stood at 17%, the business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP) at 11%, the far-right AfD at 11% and the far-left Linke at 6%.

This means that Scholz could become chancellor in a three-way coalition either with the Greens and FDP, also known as a ‘traffic light’ coalition, or a more left-leaning alliance with the Greens and the Linke.

But Laschet could, theoretically, also try to form a three-way coalition with the FDP and the Greens. All parties have ruled out working with the far-right AfD.

(Reporting by Michael Nienaber; Editing by Gareth Jones)

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