Friedrich Merz, the leader of the centre-Right Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), has emerged as the winner of Germany’s elections. Mr Merz, 69, managed to fend off the far-Right by adopting a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alice Weidel, Federal Chairwoman and candidate for Chancellor of the AfD, leaves a press conference at the Federal Press ...

As astonishing as the electoral gains are for Germany’s far-right AfD party in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, they represent a defeat for the Republican Party in the U.S. The AfD doubled its vote ...

BERLIN — Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats started exploratory talks Friday on a possible coalition government, but were ...

The German Greens on Sunday looked set to narrowly beat Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU in a regional election, projections showed, dealing the chancellor a blow ahead of elections this year as ...

Germany’s election on Sunday sent a clear, unsettling message with record turnout and a clear anti-immigration pitch. While the center-right Christian Democrats secured victory, it was the far-right ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) came on top in Germany’s snap election Sunday, while the incumbent Social Democrats (SPD) ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany faces its second change of leader in fewer than four years after the head of the center-right opposition, Friedrich Merz, won Sunday’s election, which saw a surge for a far-right ...

The preliminary results of Germany's national election on Sunday are in, with conservative parties winning the most votes and the far-right nearly doubling its seats in the national legislature.

Voters in Rhineland-Palatinate are set to choose a new state government. Run-off local elections are to take place in Bavaria, with the mayoral race in Munich in focus. DW has the latest. Voters to go ...