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

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

Exit polls in Germany show that the country's conservative union of the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader ...

Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s election ...

Alice Weidel, the co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), has said she missed a congratulatory call from ...

Friedrich Merz, likely Germany's next chancellor, said he was under "no illusions" about the White House's impact on ...

Germany's conservatives won the country's snap elections, but many in the party are disappointed at its overall showing. The ...

The Left won 8.8 percent of the vote, nearly doubling its share from the last election. It performed especially well in the ...

CDU leader Friedrich Merz vows to get to work on the arduous task of building a new coalition government on Monday ...

Merz has warned against more paralysis in Berlin at a time US President Donald Trump is driving head-spinning change, the ...

Germany’s conservative alliance has emerged victorious in the national election, paving the way for Friedrich Merz to become ...