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The ZDF Political Barometer is a regular survey conducted by the Elections Research Group on the political mood in Germany.
In a current survey, the AfD is again well ahead of the Union. If there were a federal election on Sunday, the AfD would get 28 percent - two percentage points more than in the previous week, according to the ZDF "Political Barometer" from the elections research group. The Union would lose one point and get 22 percent.
The SPD also loses one point and would get 13 percent.
The Greens would gain two points and would be in third place with 15 percent.
The left would fall by one point to 10 percent.
With 3 percent, the FDP would still miss out on entering parliament. All other parties together would come to 9 percent.
According to the survey, the current black-red government coalition still does not have a majority.
For the ZDF “Politbarometer” 1,297 randomly selected eligible voters were surveyed by telephone and online from November 10th to 12th. The survey is representative of the population eligible to vote in Germany.
The error range is around three percentage points for a share value of 40 percent and around two percentage points for a share value of 10 percent.
Election surveys are generally always subject to uncertainty. Among other things, weakening party ties and increasingly short-term voting decisions make it more difficult for opinion research institutes to weight the data collected.

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