The far-right AfD and the Left jointly secured the one third of seats needed to block constitutional changes. Both oppose ...
Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded the election and decried the historic gains of the far-right conservative ...
Germany’s likely chancellor Friedrich Merz has said the rise of the far-right AfD party is a “final warning” to democratic ...
German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the country's presumptive next chancellor, has again ruled out cooperating with ...
Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...
Millions of Germans are voting in snap elections. The centre-right CDU is predicted to win the biggest share of votes, putting its leader Friedrich Merz in pole position to be next chancellor. Follow ...
The polls, issued right after the last polling stations closed, put support for Merz's Union bloc at 28.5-29% and Alternative for Germany, or AfD, at 19.5-20% — roughly double its result from 2021 ...
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 ...