BERLIN, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Two days before this Sunday's federal election in Germany, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) along with its chancellor candidate Martin Schulz, witnessed a drop in voter support in the latest polls.
The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) once again improves by one percentage point.
The Social Democrats lost 1.5 percentage points in the public broadcaster ARD's latest poll "Politbarometer" compared to the previous week and are now at 21.5 percent, according to the survey published on Thursday evening. This would be the worst election outcome in the party's history. Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christion Democratic Union (CDU) anticipates 36 percent voter support -- a very low level of support compared to 2013's election outcome of over 41 percent.
The AfD receives 11 percent in the poll, an increase of one percentage point.
The FDP remains unchanged at 10 percent. The Left party loses half a percentage point dropping to 8.5 percent, while the Greens are still eight percent.
According to the poll, a parliamentary majority could be formed with a grand coalition of CDU and SPD, as well as the so-called Jamaica coalition consisting of the CDU, the Greens and the FDP. All parties have expressed their unwillingness to enter into a coalition with the AfD.
Many German voters are still undecided. Only 63 percent of all voters in the poll state that they are certain about whom they will vote for. In a direct comparison about the Germans preference concerning the office of the chancellor, incumbent chancellor Merkel, is clearly in the lead with 56 percent, followed by SPD candidate Schulz at 32 percent.
The poll was conducted between Sept. 20 and 21 with 1,725 randomly selected eligible voters.
