Germany’s opposition leader Friedrich Merz won the election, ending Olaf Scholz’s chancellorship after his three-party government collapsed. Merz aims to form a coalition with Scholz’s ...

Merz’s CDU/CSU alliance won at least 28.5 percent, said first exit polls from two public broadcasters, crushing the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) of the outgoing chancellor, Olaf Scholz ...

Germany's national elections saw Olaf Scholz's SPD defeated, with Friedrich Merz's CDU/CSU alliance winning over 28% of the vote. The far-right AfD surged to second place with 20%, while coalition ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lamented a 'bitter' defeat after his centre-left Social Democrats lost the Sunday's national elections. "The election result is poor and I bear responsibility," Scholz ...

Despite falling more than 9 percentage points to 16.3% in Sunday’s election, the SPD will probably be tapped by-election winner Merz to enter coalition talks. Germany’s Social Democrats are ...

Image: Olaf Scholz's SPD party collapsed to the third largest party - with 16.4% of the vote. Pic: AP Meanwhile Christian Lindner - FDP party leader and former finance minister, whose dismissal by ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his center-left Social Democrats after what he called “a bitter election result.” Projections for ARD and ZDF public television showed his party ...

Centre-right party the Christian Democratic Union of Germany is projected to win the national election, putting Friedrich Merz on track to be the country's next chancellor.

The ripple effect that Germany’s election could spell across Britain, the US and EU German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) after what he called ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD ... by fierce exchanges over the perception that irregular immigration is out of control, fuelled by a series of attacks in which the suspected ...

Following a campaign rocked by a series of violent attacks ... Merz, 69, has promised to provide greater leadership than Chancellor Olaf Scholz and to liaise more with key allies, restoring ...