The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.
Exit poll results suggest vast gains for the far-right AfD party and a sizeable shift in the fortunes of Germany’s two ...
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
The conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leads the polls with an estimated 29% of the vote, going by the exit polls, ...
Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Friedrich Merz, current Vice ...
GERMANY’S hard-right party has had its strongest showing since World War Two, exit polls suggest, taking 19.5 per cent of the ...
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Left Party jointly secured one third of seats in the new parliament, ...
Far-right gains and a ‘sharper and edgier’ chancellor are among the takeaways from the country’s contest, an expert says.