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 show the center-right Christian Democratic Union party leading, with the AfD party heading towards the strongest ...

Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election​, while far ...

Germany's far-right party the AfD finished second in the country's parliamentary elections and are hailing the outcome as a ...

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

While the far right made historic gains in Germany’s pivotal federal elections on Sunday, the conservative Christian ...

The Christian Democratic Union and its allied Christian Social Union secured the largest share of votes in the German federal ...

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

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the country's presumptive next chancellor, has again ruled out cooperating with ...

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

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