The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.
Germany’s mainstream conservatives have won the country’s national election, while a far-right party surged to become the ...
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...
Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice ...
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Hosted on MSNMerz and His Long March to the Brink of the German ChancelleryFriedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces its biggest economic and diplomatic crises in decades and Europe looks ...
Far-right gains and a ‘sharper and edgier’ chancellor are among the takeaways from the country’s contest, an expert says.
Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.
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