Germany has emerged from its recent election with a grand coalition of the center-right CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party likely, but the rise of the far-right AfD party and its ...

Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), one of the West’s oldest and most storied political forces, has long stood as a pillar of social democracy. From its opposition to Nazism to its role in ...

While Germany’s Christian Democrat ... all parties and a rise of 17 points from the 2021 federal election result, according to an exit poll conducted by Infratest Dimap, a major German ...

Friedrich Merz’s mainstream Christian Democrats took the highest portion of a record number of votes. An ascendant far right, crumbling international order and sluggish German economy face the ...

Both the far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland and the far-left Die Linke saw significant gains and were the most popular ...

Germany's election reshapes the political scene, with the far right and far left parties on the rise and coalition chaos and uncertainty for the minnows on the cards. Will CDU's Merz be able to form a ...

Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German ... celebrated as exit polls indicated they had won Sunday’s election, which ...

The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory ...

If the exit polls stand, it looks like the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has achieved its highest result yet - almost doubling its support from the last election in 2021. This is a ...