Images from Germany's SPD party headquarters in Berlin where the party are running neck and neck with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives exit polls showed, in one of the most unpredictable elections in Europe's biggest economy in recent decades. Surveys published on public television after polling stations closed at 6pm (1600 GMT) found Merkel's Christian Democrats and their candidate Armin Laschet with around 24-25 percent of the vote, nearly tied with the Social Democrats on 25-26 percent. IMAGES