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