On Sunday, the Parliament elections are held in Germany. More than 88,000 polling stations opened across the country at 8 a.m. local time (06:00 GMT).
About 61.5 million voters are expected to cast ballots, choosing among six major parties. The first results are expected at around 6 p.m. local time later in the day when the polls close, Sputnik reports.
German citizens are electing nearly 600 lawmakers to the country's Bundestag, the lower house of parliament.
According to the Forsa poll, published on Friday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc, made up of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU), is expected to get 36 percent of votes while its major rival, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) stood at 22 percent.
The poll also showed that the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party might count on 11 percent of votes.
The Left party and the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) is set to receive 9.5 percent of votes each.
The Social Democratic Party's chancellor candidate Martin Schulz and his wife were among many Germans to go to polls on Sunday.
Schulz and his wife voted at nearly 10:00 am local time (8:00 GMT) in the town of Wurselen in North Rhine-Westphalia, where he served as the mayor in 1987-1998.
