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 ...

BERLIN, Germany — Germany's conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while Alternative for Germany doubled its support in the strongest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Party members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) Baden-Wuerttemberg follow the first projections of the state election in ...

An extreme right-wing German party endorsed by Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance surged in the country's Sunday election, winning the broadest support of any far-right party in Germany since World ...

Voter turnout in the German election on Sunday stood at 52% in the early afternoon, according to the federal returning officer. The turnout figure does not include postal voters. The polls remains ...

The conservative Christian Democrats led by Friedrich Merz, won Germany's Feb. 23 elections but garnered only 28.5% of the vote. Because of this, Merz - who will become the next chancellor of Germany ...

Baden-Württemberg will go to the polls this Sunday, in the first of five German state elections this year. Chancellor Friedrich Merz is hoping for a win to boost his push for reforms in the entire ...

BERLIN — Lawmakers in an eastern German state elected a new governor on Wednesday as mainstream parties try to prevent a victory for the far-right Alternative for Germany in a regional election that ...

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 ...

Free Expression: Alternative for Germany more than doubled its 2021 vote share to 20% in the 2025 election, but the winning Christian Democratic Union, which sees the AfD as a pariah, has said it ...