German citizens went to the polls this Sunday, taking part in snap federal elections in a vote that will shape the course of the EU's largest member state and its biggest economy for the next four ...

German citizens will vote twice: once for a local member of parliament and second for a party. A party must receive at least 5 percent of the national vote to enter the Bundestag, the elected ...

Germany’s conservative leader Friedrich Merz emerged as the winner in Sunday’s election, but the results gave his bloc just one clear path to power with intense pressure to move quickly to ...

The German electoral authority confirmed the CDU's win in preliminary results, followed by the far-right AfD. The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) have gained the highest percentage of ...

Top German politicians and chancellor candidates, in a final TV debate, traded blows over topics such as Russia's invasion of Ukraine, defense expenditures, and healthcare. DW has more. https://p ...

Conservative leader Friedrich Merz won the German election, defeating Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his Social Democrats. Merz says he wants to form a government within two months, saying he wants to ...

The AfD, despite being under surveillance by German domestic intelligence services for pursuing “goals that run against the human dignity of certain groups and against democracy,” has polled ...

BERLIN, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Germany's opposition conservatives won the national election on Sunday, putting leader Friedrich Merz on track to be the next chancellor while the far-right Alternative ...

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Scholz, 66, the current German chancellor, is running again in the upcoming election after he was sworn in by the Bundestag in December 2021 after running as a continuity candidate following the ...

Attitudes towards migration have also hardened, a profound shift in German public sentiment since its “Refugees Welcome” culture during Europe’s migrant crisis in 2015, that the AfD has both ...

Friedrich Merz’s conservative party is the winner of the German general election, while current Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party experienced its worst result since the late 19th century.