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

The conservative Christian Democrats appeared to be on the cusp of victory in Germany’s parliamentary elections yesterday, exit polls show. The country’s next chancellor will almost certainly be ...

The collective shunning of the AfD party is part of a longstanding attempt to blunt its move into the mainstream.

The racist, far-right, pro-Russia AfD— founded in 2013 as an anti-European Union party—is an outlier even among Europe’s nationalist parties. One senior leader has been twice convicted of using banned ...

Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is set to return to power with the far-right Alternative for Germany ...

The Christian Democratic Union party is projected to win the election, but the far-right Alternative for Germany is set for ...

The projections, based on exit polls and partial counting, put support for Merz’s Union bloc at just under 29% and ...

Germans went to the polls Sunday in a pivotal election, with the conservatives the strong favourites after a campaign rocked ...