A good week before the state elections in Saarland, the SPD is still clearly ahead of the CDU according to a survey.
If there were state elections next Sunday, the Social Democrats would get 39 percent of the votes and the CDU 30 percent, according to a ZDF political barometer extra that was published on Friday.
The AfD would therefore come to six percent - as would the Greens, who would thus make it back into the state parliament after a five-year break.
The FDP would have to worry with five percent, the left would not be represented in the state parliament with four percent.
A new state parliament will be elected in Saarland on March 27th.
The smallest state in Germany has been governed by a grand coalition led by the CDU since 2012.
The CDU has been the Prime Minister in the state since 1999.
According to the ZDF survey, a coalition led by the SPD with both the Greens and the CDU would be able to win a majority.
It could just about be enough for a social-liberal government if the FDP manages to get into the state parliament.
A traffic light consisting of SPD, FDP and Greens would also be possible in this case.
According to a survey, economics minister and SPD state chairwoman Anke Rehlinger would get 52 percent approval in a direct election for the office of prime minister.
Prime Minister Tobias Hans (CDU) would be 31 percent.
For the survey, the Mannheim research group Wahlen interviewed 1024 eligible voters between March 15 and 17.
An ARD pre-election survey ("Saarland trend") published on Thursday evening saw the SPD well ahead of the CDU.
Accordingly, the SPD was 37 percent, the CDU 31 percent.
The AfD came - as in the ZDF political barometer - to 6 percent;
Greens and FDP were each at 5 percent.
Here, too, the left would fail at the five percent hurdle with four percent.