With days to go until Germany’s elections, a new poll showed most eligible voters in the country said they have already made up their minds which party they would pick.
In a YouGov poll asking the public whether they have made a final decision on who they will vote for in the Bundestag election, 74 percent said yes.
The survey was conducted between Sept. 16 and 22.
Meanwhile, 15 percent of respondents said they would make a final choice later, 9 percent did not specify and 1 percent said they didn’t know.
In answer to which party respondents would vote for, the Social Democrats remained in first place with 25 percent, followed by the CDU/CSU conservative bloc with 21 percent, and the Greens were in third place with 14 percent.
The far-right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party got 12 percent, the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) 11 percent, and the far-left Die Linke party got 7 percent.
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Election polls were only a snapshot of opinion at the time of the survey and were not a forecast of election outcomes.
Weakened party ties and increasingly short-term decision-making have made it more difficult for polling institutes to weigh the data collected.
A tight result was expected when Germans go to the polls on Sunday, with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives at risk of being kicked out of power after nearly 16 years
