Berlin — Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election, while a far-right party surged to become the nation's second-largest.

open image in gallery AfD supporters waved German flags, including one adorned with an Iron Cross, at the final AfD campaign rally ahead of Thuringia state elections in August 2024 (Sean Gallup ...

Germany’s “people’s parties” might be in danger of losing the support of the people. The Social Democratic Party (SPD), whose three-party coalition collapsed last year after three years in ...

AfD co-leader and chancellor candidate Alice Weidel waves a German flag at the AfD party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, on February 23, 2025, after the German election results showed her party ...

Celebrating its best-ever result, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has made extraordinary gains in the last few years. It has doubled its vote share since 2021 with more than 10 million ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

Languages: English. Friedrich Merz may be the new Chancellor of Germany, but there are two others who will be happy after Sunday's elections: Elon Musk and his European party of choice ...

Friedrich Merz's centre-right CDU/CSU has won Germany’s federal election, but with only 28.5% of the vote, the party faces a fragmented political landscape and is set to revive the so-called ...

While the far right made historic gains in Germany’s pivotal federal elections on Sunday, the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party ultimately thrived with Friedrich Merz securing ...

The German elections confirmed that Germany, traditionally the most powerful country in Europe at least potentially, since Bismarck founded the German Empire in 1871, has arrived at a crossroads, ...

The mood at the far right’s election party in Berlin was ecstatic as the exit polls first flashed onto the screens, with people cheering and waving Germany flags. For his part, Christian ...