The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

Germany's election winner Friedrich Merz warned the United States on Monday against turning its back on allies but also urged ...

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Germany's opposition conservatives CDU/CSU won the national election on Sunday, putting leader Friedrich Merz on track to be ...

Struggling a month ago, the far-left Die Linke party surged into Parliament by riding a backlash against conservative immigration policy.

Exit polls show Alternative for Germany on course for strongest far-right showing in a national election since WWII.

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...

Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative für Deutschland party, or AfD, is on course for a stunning result in Sunday’s ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...

Alternative for Germany (AfD) is a far right political party with Eurosceptic and anti-immigration views. The AfD are currently expected to finish second in the 2025 German federal elections.

The American message in Munich a week ago made German-US relations an unexpectedly divisive German election issue. Germans ...

Supported by A new band of influencers unafraid of confrontation has helped elevate the Alternative for Germany party to second in pre-election polls. Photographs by Sergey Ponomarev Text by Adam ...