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

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

The German elections have taken place and the Bundestag is looking a lot more right-wing than it was this time yesterday. The ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany’s next chancellor after his centre-Right Christian Democratic Union [CDU] party won ...

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

Polls are open across Germany as the world’s third largest economy chooses a new leader to guide it through an era of febrile ...

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

Germany has voted — and the exit polls show opposition leader Friedrich Merz and his Conservative Party on course for a ...

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

The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, ...

Germany's conservatives won the national election on Sunday, while the far-right Alternative for Germany came in second, its ...

The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the second largest party in parliament after Sunday's election, ...