Many German voters remain undecided just nine days before parliamentary elections on February 23, according to polls published on Friday.

As many as 38% of those intending to vote on election Sunday have yet to decide which party they will give their vote to, a survey by the Allensbach Institute commissioned by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily found.

The Politbarometer published by national public broadcaster ZDF put the figure at 28%.

The conservative CDU/CSU alliance headed by Friedrich Merz remains well ahead, with Allensbach putting them on 32% and Politbarometer on 30%.

Both polls give 20% to the far-right AfD in second place.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s centre-left SPD is in third on between 15% and 16%, with the Greens close behind on 13% to 14%.

Trailing them is the hard-left The Left, which has risen slightly to between 6% and 7%. The pro-business FDP and the leftist-populist BSW are hovering around the 5% threshold to enter parliament.

Source: dpa.com