Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big ...

The far-right had its strongest showing since World War II, while the center-left Social Democrats had their worst postwar ...

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

On 23 February, Germany will vote to decide who will run their next federal government. There’s five candidates running to be ...

The conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leads the polls with an estimated 29% of the vote, going by the exit polls, ...

Centre-right opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc emerged as the frontrunner in Germany’s national election ...

German chancellor candidates have spoken publicly to their supporters after exit polls came out indicating the results of the ...

Friedrich Merz's CDU won Germany's elections with 28.6 percent, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) recorded ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany's next chancellor, as exit polls show his centre-right grouping has won the general election. The far-right AfD appears to have come second.

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

With 28.5% of the vote, conservative party CDU leader Friedrich Merz is set on the path to becoming the next chancellor.