German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder posed while speaking during an election campaign rally in Berlin, Friday Sept.16, 2005.

BERLIN, Sept. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- As the general election is taking place on Sunday throughout Germany, new poll shows there is still no clear winner and nearly 30 percent voters remain undecided.

    The alliance led by German opposition leader Angela Merkel is projected on Friday to win a slim majority of votes in the 16th federal parliament elections.

    Merkel's Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) is expected win 41 percent to 43 percent, according to a Forsa-RTL TV poll.

    The Free Democratic Party (FDA), the likely coalition partner of the CDU/CSU, can get seven to eight percent.

    The Social Democratic Party (SPD), led by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, will win about 32 to 34 percent, and its junior partner,the Green Party will gain six to seven percent, the poll showed.

    The result of the Forsa-RTL poll showed that Merkel will gain aslight majority, 51 percent, but enough to win the election.

    However, another poll by Allensbach Institute showed that Merkel 's bloc will win 49.5 percent, and still lacks a majority to win the elections.

    Allensbach's poll also show that Schroeder's alliance will win a total of 39.5 percent. The Left Party, a key player in the elections, will get 8.5 percent, the poll said.

    The results of the Allensbach's survey mean neither Merkel's bloc nor Schroeder's can win a majority of votes in the elections.

    Under Germany's Election Law, each of the registered 62 millionvoters will cast two votes, one is for a member of Bundestag or the parliament, and another is for a party. Half of the parliamentor 299 members will be elected directly while another half will bealloted according to the votes each party win.

    The new chancellor is elected by the parliament and the majority party chancellor candidate will be the winner. Schroeder may lose the election though his personal popularity is higher than Merkel.

    A latest poll show that 45 percent of German people say there should be a change of the government while 51 percent are opposedto the view.

Angela Merkel, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and candidate for chancellor of the conservative opposition applauds during the final election campaign rally at the Tempodrom in Berlin.(AFP photo by Fabrizio Bensch)

    German media reports have speculated that the most likely result might be a grand coalition by the two groups, saying that there is no chance for Schroeder's reelection.

    But, writing in Berlin's Die Tageszeitung newspaper, Franz Walter, an expert of the University of Goettingen, predicted an SPD-Greens-FDA government as the most likely result on Sunday.

    Walter said he still expects Schroeder to make an offer to the Free Democrats (FDA) on the election night if the percentages add up.

    "(Schroeder) can only survive and indeed triumph alone through this Red-Green-Yellow constellation," Walter said. Traditionally, the SPD has a color of red, FDA a color of yellow.

    All signs indicate that the race is very tight and the result might be too close to call. Both Schroeder and Merkel have vowed to fight until the last minute in the campaign.

    On Friday evening, the two attended their parties' official closing rallies in Berlin. However, on Saturday they plan to go onwith the campaign.

    "We are heading in the right direction. We need to stay on course," Schroeder told his supporters while Merkel announced at the CDU/CSU rally:" Red-green is history, CDU/CSU and the FDP are the future." Enditem