Live updates: Merz’s conservatives win Germany election as far-right AfD makes historic gains
Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded the election and decried the historic gains of the far-right conservative party, AfD. Early exit polls show AfD is headed for second place, while opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives are in the lead and Scholz’s party fell to third.
Germany's AfD, Left Party Can Jointly Block Changes to Constitution
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Germany's Left party between them garnered the one third of seats in parliament needed to block changes to the constitution, including a loosening of the debt brake which restricts deficits to 0.
Alice Weidel of the nationalist, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany lives in Switzerland and is married to a Sri ...
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.
One of the most prominent representatives of the Jewish community in Germany, Charlotte Knobloch, has expressed her shock ...
Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative für Deutschland party, or AfD, is on course for a stunning result in Sunday’s ...
Trump hailed the result as a "GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY," while the far-right AfD party that Elon Musk has championed made ...
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Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s ...
Exit polls show the center-right Christian Democratic Union party leading, with the AfD party heading towards the strongest ...
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Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces ...
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