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Credit: Reuters/Tobias Schwarz By Erik Kirschbaum Berlin | Sun Sep 18, 2011 11:30am EDT Berlin (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives face a heavy defeat in a regional election on Sunday that would extend their losing streak to six states this year and weaken her hand before a crucial euro zone vote in parliament. Opinion polls show Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) will win about 22 percent of the vote in the city-state of Berlin on Sunday and come a distant second to the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), who are forecast to win about 31 percent and stay in power with either the Greens or the Left party. The polls in Berlin opened at 8 a.m. (2 a.m. EDT) and the first exit polls will be announced immediately after polls close at 6 p.m. (1600 GMT). According to electoral data as of 1000 GMT only 19.1 percent of the 2.5 million Berliners eligible to vote had gone to the polls, less than the 22.3 percent seen at the same stage of the last regional election in 2006. It rained for most of the day on Sunday. Merkel, under fire for her hesitant leadership in the euro zone crisis, is halfway through a four-year term. But election setbacks for her CDU have hurt her standing before the vote on euro zone measures in parliament at the end of September. "I never really liked Merkel anyway, and she doesn't seem to be doing a good job leading at all," said Claudia Barre, 31, an insurance sales woman on her way to vote. There could be more bad news for Merkel's center-right coalition in Berlin if her junior coalition partners, the Free Democrats (FDP), fail to win at least five percent of the vote and are ejected from the state assembly. It would be the fifth time in seven elections this year that the FDP had failed to win five percent and could increase pressure on the party, which won a record 14.6 percent in the 2009 federal election, to remove Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle. Polls show the FDP at about 2 percent. Another surprise on Sunday could be the performance of the Pirate Party, a German branch of a party that emerged in Sweden five years ago to campaign for reform of copyright and better privacy in the Internet age. Polls show it winning 9 percent. SPD BUILDS MOMENTUM The SPD, in opposition at the national level since 2009, wants likely re-election in Berlin on Sunday to build up momentum to oust Merkel in the next federal election in 2013. The SPD has ousted or helped defeat the CDU in Hamburg and Baden-Wuerttemberg this year and remained in power elsewhere. The CDU has lost five of six regional votes. A bad result in Berlin, Germany's largest city with 3.4 million, would add to Merkel's woes before a Bundestag vote on September 29 to give the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) more powers. The euro crisis has crept into the campaign in Berlin, with Merkel using a local radio interview ostensibly on city issues to quash talk of an imminent Greek default [ID:nL5E7KD1TR]. Klaus Wowereit of the SPD, Berlin's mayor, should be re-elected for a third term after finishing strongly in what appeared to be a tight battle against the environmentalist Greens party. "Wowereit has done a very good job over the last 10 years, but this election campaign hasn't been very exciting at all because it was clear from the start he was going to win again," said Yvonne Wagner, a 42-year-old mother. "The CDU hasn't been a factor in Berlin for a long time. They seem a bit out of touch here," she added. Victory could bolster Wowereit's credentials as the darling of the SPD's left and make him a candidate to run against Merkel in 2013. So far former finance minister Peer Steinbrueck, on the SPD's right, has seemed to be the front runner. The CDU candidate against Wowereit attracted little enthusiasm and the party will be fortunate to do better than in the last election in 2006 -- 21.3 percent. The Greens are projected to win 18 percent while the Left -- Wowereit's current partners in city government -- are expected to win 11 percent. A spate of apparently random night-time arson attacks on cars in Berlin, with more than 530 set alight, gave the CDU a chance to attack Wowereit's record on crime-fighting. But the mayor's distinctive Berlin accent, charismatic smile and popular touch have lifted his party in opinion polls. One of his campaign posters shows a toddler with an impish smile trying to bite off Wowereit's nose with her glove puppet. Wowereit has ruled in alliance with the Left for 10 years but could switch allegiance to the Greens. The Greens, whose popularity soared earlier this year after Japan's nuclear disaster, had hoped to win in Berlin after taking the prosperous Baden-Wuerttemberg state from the CDU. With former cabinet minister Renate Kuenast as the party's mayoral candidate, it was ahead in some polls in late 2010 and early 2011, until Wowereit managed to rally. (Reporting By Erik Kirschbaum; editing by Elizabeth Piper) World Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above. Social Stream (What's this?) 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