Friedrich Merz's conservatives (CDU/CSU) won Sunday’s national election in Germany, but in second place, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) earned its best result yet in Europe's ailing ...

Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made historic gains.

The Left won 8.8 percent of the vote, nearly doubling its share from the last election. It performed especially well in the capital, Berlin, surpassing all parties with 19.9 percent of the vote. That ...

The SPD, which came top in the last election in 2021, has sunk to the third place with just 16.2% of the vote. The leader of the Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) youth wing, known as the Young ...

The German election on February 23 saw a record-breaking voter turnout of 82.5%, according to the Federal Election Commission ...

Voting opened Sunday in a German general election that opinion ... Having become the largest party in the 2021 election, opinion polls indicate they look set for a downward swing in votes by ...

For Germans heading to the polls for a snap election, climate is not quite as important a factor as it used to be.

Merz is not a newcomer to German politics, but this is his second ... Having become the largest party in the 2021 election, opinion polls indicate they look set for a downward swing in votes ...

The Bundestag has a base of 598 seats, but it can expand, reaching 733 seats in 2021, the largest in ... 1957 to 1961 when the CDU/CSU won elections in West Germany. Whichever party secures ...