Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election​, while far ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...

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

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

The success of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is a sign of the times. Across Europe, far-right parties once on the ...

German voters cast their ballots in Sunday’s election , with opposition leader Friedrich Merz claiming victory and Chancellor ...

Elon Musk has continued his public association with Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, sending a ...

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

Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded the election and decried the historic gains of the far-right conservative ...

Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice ...

The Christian Democratic Union and its allied Christian Social Union secured the largest share of votes in the German federal ...