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 ...

He held a live chat on X with Weidel and appeared ... vote count but said there were high hurdles to contesting an election in Germany. "We are checking whether it has a chance of success ...

Workers on Wednesday rearranged the blue seats in the chamber of the lower house of parliament, or Bundestag. After each ...

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

The only time a single parliamentary group secured a majority was for the parliamentary term of 1957 to 1961 when the CDU/CSU won elections in West Germany. Whichever party secures the most votes ...

The far-right AfD and the Left jointly secured the one third of seats needed to block constitutional changes. Both oppose military aid to Ukraine.

On a live TV debate on Sunday ... Protesters against the far right are taking to the streets in German cities ahead of tomorrow’s election. Der Spiegel reports on the various demonstrations ...

Friedrich Merz is likely to become the next German chancellor after his conservative CDU party topped the vote in elections, exit polls project. The stuttering economy and immigration were major ...

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The German election on Sunday Feb ... Oliver Crook and Michael Nienaber discuss what's at stake in the vote in a Live Q&A on Friday, Feb. 21 at 10 a.m. EST. A recording of this conversation ...